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HISTORY 


OF  THE 


NINTH  REGIMENT, 

Connecticut  Volunteer  Infantry, 

-THE  IRISH  REGIMENT," 


IN  THE 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-65. 


THE    RECORD    OF    A    GALLANT    COMMAND 
ON  THE  MARCH,  IN  BATTLE  AND  IN  BIVOUAC. 


BY  THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY, 

i  \ 

Secretary-General,  American-Irish  Historical  Society  ;  Author  of  Papers 
"The   Irish   Element  in  Connecticut,"   "Early  Irish  in  the   Plymouth 
Colony,"  "  The  Irish  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War,"  "  From  Dawn 
to  Revolution,"   "Thirty  Historic  American  Families,"   "The 
Irish  at  the  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill,"  "  Early  Irish  Educators 
of  American   Youth,"    "The   First    Regiment,  Penn- 
sylvania  Line,"     "Gen.  John  Sullivan  and  the 
Battle  of  Rhode  Island,"  etc.,  etc. 


THE  PRICE,  LEE  &  ADKINS  Co. 
1903. 


Copyright,  1903,  by 
MICHAEL  P.  COEN,  NAUGATUCK,  CT., 

for  the 
NINTH  REGIMENT  VETERAN  ASSOCIATION,  CONNECTICUT  VOLUNTEERS. 


COMMITTEE  ON  PUBLICATION  OF  THIS  VOLUME. 


MICHAEL;  P.* 

JOHN  G.'H*EALY,'New'  HaVe*n.  f 
RICP]AM>  FJT^  pjb&qij,:  Bridgeport. 
LAWfeKcE  ^BRIBN,  :^eW  fiav'en. 
ROLLIN  MCNEIL,  M.D.,  New  Haven. 


M198143 


"It  is  hardly  necessary  for  me  to  say  that  the  conduct 
of  your  men  meets  my  cordial  approval,  and  I  am  proud 
of  both  officers  and  their  command." 

GOVERNOR  BUCKINGHAM,  of  Connecticut, 
to  Colonel  Cahill,  after  Biloxi  and 
Pass  Christian,  1862. 


"*  *  *  Connecticut,  represented  by  the  sons  of  the 
ever  green  shamrock,  *  *  *" 

GEN.  BENJAMIN  F.  BUTLER,  in  1862, 
General  Orders,  Department  of  the 
Gulf. 

"The  Ninth,  Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill,  is  still  attached 
to  the  Department  of  the  Gulf.  In  the  part  taken  by  this 
regiment  in  the  several  engagements  in  which  it  has  par- 
ticipated, it  has  fully  sustained  the  character  for  gallantry 
and  energy  which  it  possessed  at  the  close  of  my  last 
report." 

Adjutant-General,  State  of  Connecticut,  1862-3. 


To  The 
Officers  And  Men,  Living  And  Dead, 

of  The 
Ninth  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteer  Infantry, 

Whose  Services  In  The 

Great  Civil  War  Contributed  So  Much  To  The 
Preservation  of  The  Union, 

This  Volume  Is 
Cordially  Dedicated. 


8  PREFACE. 

a  captain  in  the  regiment,  was  at  one  time  during  the 
war,  provost  marshal  and  judge  of  the  Parish  of  Saint 
James,  La.  Michael  P.  Coen  was  a  corporal  in  Com- 
pany F,  of  the  regiment.  His  father  and  brother  both 
lost  their  lives  in  the  service.  Rollin  McNeil,  M.D.,  New 
Haven,  of  the  committee,  was  an  assistant  surgeon  in 
the  Regiment,  and  was  later  Surgeon  of  the  Ninth  Bat- 
talion, C.  V. 

In  addition  to  material  received  from  the  committee, 
valuable  data  has  been  furnished  by  Major  Patrick 
Maher,  a  veteran  of  the  Twenty-Fourth  regiment,  C.  V. 
Major  Maher  was  one  of  the  founders,  in  1849,  °f  the 
Washington-Erina  Guards,  of  New  Haven,  and  was 
later  an  officer  of  the  Emmet  Guard  of  that  place.  As 
an  authority  on  Irish  military  organizations  in  Connecti- 
cut he  stands  unexcelled. 

The  author  is  also  indebted  to  the  Hon.  John  F.  Hur- 
ley, recently  mayor  of  Salem,  Mass.,  who  served  in  the 
Fourth  Massachusetts  Light  Battery  during  the  war. 
This  battery  was  encamped  at  Camp  Chase,  Lowell, 
Mass.,  with  the  Ninth  Regiment,  C.  V.,  and  accompanied 
it  on  the  Constitution  to  Ship  Island.  Mr.  Hurley  has 
furnished  the  writer  a  statement  of  many  interesting 
facts,  and  has  otherwise  expressed  his  interest  in  this 
work. 

To  the  Hon.  James  P.  Bree,  New  Haven,  State  Auditor 
of  Connecticut,  acknowledgment  is  likewise  made  for 
valuable  assistance  rendered,  and  also  to  Gen.  Thomas 
McManus,  of  Hartford.  This  latter  gentleman  was  a 
major  in  the  Twenty-Fifth  Regiment,  C.  V.,  during  the 
Civil  War,  having  also  been  adjutant  of  the  regiment. 
From  Jan.,  1883,  to  Jan.,  1885,  he  was  Quartermaster- 
General  of  Connecticut,  with  the  rank  of  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral. Thanks  for  data  received  are  also  extended  Thomas 
M.  CahilL  M.D.,  of  New  Haven,  a  son  of  Colonel  Cahill, 
and  to  Dr.  Patrick  Cassidy,  of  Norwich.  Dr.  Cassidy  was 
Surgeon-General  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Luzon  B. 


PREFACE,  9 

Morris  of  Connecticut,  ranking  also  as  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral. 

Much  information  has  been  obtained,  too,  from  files  of 
Hartford,  New  Haven,  Bridgeport  and  other  Connecticut 
journals  published  during  the  war.  Official  publications 
issued  by  the  State  and  National  governments  have  been 
consulted.  Collections  of  letters  written  home  from  the 
front  have  been  placed  at  the  author's  disposal  and  from 
this  source,  too,  many  interesting  facts  have  been 
gleaned.  Access  has  also  been  had  to  regimental  and 
company  papers,  thus  greatly  facilitating  the  work  of  the 
author. 

The  interest  displayed  by  the  public  in  the  preparation 
of  the  present  volume  has  been  most  gratifying.  The 
author  has  received  hearty  co-operation  on  every  hand. 
The  kindliest  sentiments  have  been  expressed,  and  the 
most  cordial  inquiries  made,  from  time  to  time,  regard- 
ing the  progress  of  the  work.  T.  H.  M. 

New  Haven,  Ct.,  August,  1903. 


AN  INTRODUCTORY  CHAPTER. 

EARLY     IRISH     MILITARY     OFFICERS     IN     CONNECTICUT 

MENTION     OF     CAPT.      DANIEL     PATRICK     IN      1637 

IRISH    NAMES    IN     1729,     1756,    1767    AND    AT    OTHER 

PERIODS MANY   CONNECTICUT   IRISH    SERVE    IN    THE 

WAR  FOR  INDEPENDENCE,  IN  THE  WAR  OF  l8l2  AND 
IN  THE  CONFLICT  WITH  MEXICO — IRISH  COMPANIES 
DISBANDED  BY  THE  KNOW  NOTHING  ADMINISTRA- 
TION, 1855. 

T  RISH  settlers  are  found  in  Connecticut  at  a  very  early 
A  period.  Some  of  them  participated  in  campaigns 
against  the  Indians.  Captain  Daniel  Patrick,  who  had 
served  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  came  here  dur- 
ing the  Pequod  war,  1637,  and  rendered  effective  service. 

He  is  believed  to  have  been  an  Irishman.  One  writer 
inclines  to  the  opinion  that  his  name  was  originally  Gill- 
patrick  or  Fitzpatrick,  and  that  he  probably  went  from 
Ireland  to  the  Low  Countries  and  rendered  military  ser- 
vice there  before  coming  to  America. 

Capt.  Patrick  became  one  of  the  founders  of  what  is 
now  the  town  of  Greenwich,  Ct.  He  eventually  swore 
allegiance  to  the  Dutch  government  and  was  granted  the 
rights  of  a  "patroon"  in  Greenwich  and  vicinity.  His 
wife  was  a  woman  of  Dutch  blood. 

A  number  of  Irish  soldiers  from  Connecticut  partici- 
pated in  "The  Great  Swamp  Fight,"  in  1675,  during 
King  Philip's  war.  This  fight  took  place  in  southern 
Rhode  Island  and  resulted  in  a  severe  defeat  for  the 
Indians.  Among  the  Connecticut  soldiers  mentioned  as 
taking  part  in  the  battle  were:  James  Murphy,  Daniel 
Tracy,  Edward  Larkin,  James  Welch  and  John  Roach. 
The  latter  is  referred  to  in  the  Norwalk  records  as  "a 
soldier  in  the  late  Indian  war,"  and  was  granted  a  tract 
of  land  as  a  gratuity. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  IX 

Quite  a  number  of  military  officers  bearing  Irish  names 
are  identified  with  the  colonial  history  of  Connecticut. 
Thus,  we  find:  Capt.  John  Lyoti,  (Greenwich),  1728; 
Capt.  Joseph  Keeny,  (Preston),  1729;  Ensign  John 
Keeny,  (New  London),  1730;  Ensign  Richard  Keeny, 
(Glastonbury),  1731;  Lieut.  James  Tracy,  1756;  Lieut. 
Daniel  Lyon,  1756;  Lieut.  David  Lacey,  1756;  Capt. 
Timothy  Hierlehy,  1758;  Lieut.  James  McGunnigall,  Jr., 
1759;  Lieut.  Cornelius  Higgins,  (Haddam),  1759;  Capt. 
Daniel  Tracy,  (Norwich),  1759;  Lieut.  Joseph  Tracy, 
(Norwich),  1759;  Lieut.  Patrick  Walsh,  1759;  Lieut. 
Roger  Riley,  1767;  Capt.  Thaddeus  Lacy,  (Woodbury), 
1769,  and  a  number  of  others. 

The  Rev.  James  H.  O'Donnell,  now  of  Norwalk,  Ct., 
in  his  History  of  the  Catholic  Church  in  the  Diocese  of 
Hartford,  goes  extensively  into  this  subject  of  early  Irish 
people  in  Connecticut,  and  to  his  work  we  are  indebted 
for  a  number  of  facts  set  forth  in  this  chapter.  As  the 
volume  on  which  we  are  here  engaged  is  a  military  one, 
however,  we  are  confining  our  labors  almost  entirely  to 
that  line  of  narrative.  There  is  a  mass  of  material  at 
hand  concerning  pioneers  and  Irish  settlers,  generally,  in 
Connecticut,  from  1640  down,  but  such  does  not  come 
within  the  scope  of  the  present  work. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution,  the  Irish  and  their 
descendants  were  very  numerous  in  Connecticut,  and  it 
has  been  estimated  that  fully  one  thousand  of  them  en- 
listed in  the  patriot  ranks.  The  Revolutionary  rolls  of 
the  State  are  replete  with  Irish  names.  In  the  "Lexing- 
ton Alarm  List,"  1775,  of  Connecticut  men,  are  found 
such  names  as :  Fitzgerald,  Gleason,  Griffin,  Kennedy, 
Manning,  Martin,  Murphy,  McCartee,  McMullen,  Riley 
and  the  like.  In  every  Connecticut  regiment,  during  the 
Revolution,  Irish  names  abound.  And  this  applies  not 
only  to  the  regiments  serving  more  especially  within  the 
State,  but  also  to  the  Connecticut  regiments  of  the  Con- 
tinental Line. 


12 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


The  Connecticut  rolls  relating  to  the  War  of  1812  also 
contain  many  Irish  names,  the  bearers  being  from  New 
Haven,  Hartford,  New  London,  Norwich,  Groton,  Strat- 
ford, Litchfield,  Bridgeport,  Middletown,  Danbury  and 
other  parts  of  the  State.  Many  of  these  served  in  the 
Regular  Army,  especially  in  the  Twenty-Fifth  Infantry 
and  in  the  Thirty-Seventh  Infantry. 

In  the  war  with  Mexico,  Connecticut  men  of  Irish 
blood  were  likewise  represented  in  the  Regular  Army. 
They  were  found  in  the  First  and  Second  artillery  regi- 
ments;  and  in  the  First,  Second,  Third,  Fourth,  Fifth, 
Ninth  and  Tenth  regiments  of  infantry;  also  in  other 
organizations. 

THE  WASHINGTON-ERINA  GUARDS   OF  NEW   HAVEN. 

On  July  31,  1849,  a  meeting  of  those  interested  in  a 
projected  Irish  company  was  held  in  the  Glebe  building, 
corner  of  Church  and  Chapel  streets,  New  Haven.  Capt. 
James  Quinn  was  chairman  of  the  meeting,  and  John 
Duffy,  secretary. 

The  organization  was  named  the  Washington-Erina 
Guards.  Provision  was  made  for  drilling  the  men  and 
the  company  made  good  progress.  After  drills  had  been 
in  progress  some  time,  Col.  John  Arnold,  of  the  Second 
Regiment,  requested  the  members  of  the  company  to  pe- 
tition Governor  Trumbull  for  a  charter  and  to  have  the 
organization  taken  into  the  service  of  the  State  as  part  of 
Col.  Arnold's  regiment,  as  there  was  a  vacancy  for  a 
company  in  the  latter. 

In  accordance  with  Col.  Arnold's  request,  a  petition  to 
Governor  Trumbull  was  drafted  Feb.  8,  1850,  and  was 
signed  by  John  Duffy,  Thomas  Newman,  James  Gal- 
lagher, William  Geary,  Francis  McBryan,  John  Maher, 
Barney  Galligan,  Patrick  Maher,  James  Brady,  Patrick 
W.  Kennefick,  Daniel  Crowley,  James  Banning,  Michael 
Shields,  Stephen  Flynn,  Geoffrey  Ahearn,  Rendles 
Sheilds,1  Edward  Hamel,  Thomas  W.  Cahill,  Thomas 

»  Spelled  elsewhere  as  Randal  and  Randall  Shields. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  13 

Preston  and  John  L.  Duffy.  This  petition,  however,  was 
never  forwarded  to  Governor  Trumbull,  as  it  was  thought 
the  incoming  governor  (Seymour)  would  be  more  likely 
to  grant  the  desired  recognition.  Governor  Seymour  did 
so  in  March,  1852,  the  organization  becoming  officially 
known  as  Company  E,  of  the  Second  Regiment.  The 
officers  commissioned  were  to  take  rank  from  March  17, 
that  year,  and  comprised:  Captain,  John  Duffy;  First 
Lieutenant,  Thomas  W.  Cahill;  Second  Lieutenant, 
Randal  Shields ;  Third  Lieutenant,  Peter  Hanley.  The 
company  established  an  armory  at  the  corner  of  Water 
and  Fleet  streets,  New  Haven,  purchased  its  own  uni- 
forms, and  received  flint-lock  muskets  from  the  State. 
These  muskets  it  continued  to  use  until  an  order  came 
in  August,  1854,  from  John  C.  Hollister,  then  Adjutant- 
General  of  the  State,  requesting  the  company  to  return 
the  muskets  to  the  arsenal,  in  Hartford,  and  stating  that 
the  command  would  be  supplied  with  percussion-lock 
muskets  instead.  The  old  muskets  were  thereupon  re- 
turned and  the  new  ones  received. 

A  strict  rule  for  admission  to  the  company  was  that 
the  applicant  must  be  a  native,  or  a  naturalized  citizen,  of 
the  United  States.  The  company  paraded  with  the  regi- 
ment, attended  the  regimental  encampments,  went  to 
Hartford  to  attend  Governor  Seymour's  inauguration, 
one  year,  and  was  hospitably  entertained  by  the  people  of 
that  city.  The  company  became  very  popular  through- 
cut  the  State,  and  received  many  compliments  on  its  drill 
and  general  soldierly  bearing. 

The  organization  of  the  Washington-Erina  Guards 
took  place,  as  has  been  stated,  on  July  31,  1849.  Of 
the  original  members,  the  following  were  still  living, 
Aug.  8,  1899,  fifty  years  after:  William  Geary,  Peter 
Sheridan,  Thomas  Preston,  Michael  McCarten,  James 
Daly,  Patrick  Maher,  John  Cummisky,  Thomas  Layden, 
Michael  Hughson,  John  Conlin,  Jeremiah  Donovan, 
James  Wrinn,  Daniel  Carroll,  Michael  Gilhuly,  Timothy 


I4     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Fogarty,  Patrick  Garvey,  and  Daniel  J.  Crowley, — seven- 
teen in  all.  John  Cummisky,  one  of  these  survivors,  died 
in  Chicago,  111.,  Jan.  8,  1900. 

MENTION   OF  OTHER   IRISH    COMPANIES. 

In  the  meantime,  another  military  organization  was 
formed,  in  New  Haven,  known  as  the  Jackson  Guards, 
composed,  like  the  Washington-Erina  Guards,  of  men  of 
Irish  birth  or  descent.  The  new  organization  was  an  off- 
shoot of  the  Washington-Erina  Guards,  the  requirements 
for  admission  being  practically  the  same.  The  first  cap- 
tain of  the  Jacksons  was  Patrick  Garvey.  The  Jacksons 
were  attached  to  the  Second  Regiment  as  Company  D. 

There  was  also  an  Irish  company,  attached  to  the 
militia,  at  this  time,  in  Hartford ;  one  in  Bridgeport ;  one 
in  Derby  (Birmingham),  and  one  in  Norwich.  These 
companies  were  composed  of  an  excellent  class  of  citi- 
zens, and  in  drill,  discipline,  and  every  other  respect,  were 
a  credit  to  the  State.  According  to  an  official  roster  of  the 
State  militia,  the  officers  of  these  six  Irish  companies 
were,  in  December,  1854,  as  follows: 

Infantry  Company  F,  First  Regiment,  Hartford, 
(Emmet  Guards),  Captain,  Edward  McManus ;  First 
Lieutenant,  James  McHugh  ;  Second  Lieutenant,  Michael 
Collins ;  Third  Lieutenant,  Cornelius  Ryan. 

Infantry  Company  E,  Second  Regiment,  New  Haven, 
(Washington-Erina  Guards),  Captain,  Thomas  W.  Cahill ; 
First  Lieutenant,  Patrick  Maher;  Second  Lieutenant, 
Randall  Shields ;  Third  Lieutenant,  Michael  McCarten. 

Infantry  Company  D,  Second  Regiment,  New  Haven, 
(Jackson  Guards),  Captain,  (vacancy) ;  First  Lieutenant, 
Peter  Sheridan ;  Second  Lieutenant,  John  Scanlan ;  Third 
Lieutenant,  Michael  Hughson. 

Infantry  Company  C,  Third  Regiment,  Norwich, 
(Jackson  Guards),  Captain,  Patrick  McKiernan ;  First 
Lieutenant,  James  Williams  ;  Second  Lieutenant,  Thomas 
O'Rourke  ;  Third  Lieutenant,  John  Gaffney. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  15 

Rifle  Company  B,  Second  Regiment,  Derby,  (Bir- 
mingham), (Derby  Rifles),  Captain  Patrick  McMahon; 
First  Lieutenant,  Hugh  McGowen;  Second  Lieutenant, 
Michael  Stevens;  Third  Lieutenant,  Patrick  Moneghan. 

Infantry  Company  B,  Eighth  Regiment,  Bridgeport, 
(Montgomery  Guards),  Captain,  M.  O'Connell ;  First 
Lieutenant,  John  Fox;  Second  Lieutenant,  Edward  N. 
Goodwin;  Third  Lieutenant,  Richard  Sewell. 

At  the  time  the  foregoing  companies  were  disbanded, 
in  1855,  Infantry  Company  D,  Second  Regiment,  New 
Haven,  was  commanded  by  Lieut.  John  Maher,  Jr.,  the 
captaincy  being  vacant.  With  this,  and  possibly  one  or 
two  other  exceptions,  the  companies  had,  doubtless,  the 
same  officers  as  in  December,  1854. 

THE  DISBANDMENT  OF  THE  COMPANIES. 

William  T.  Minor,  of  Stamford,  was  elected  Governor 
of  Connecticut  by  the  Know  Nothings  and  held  the  office 
for  two  years, — 1855-57.  During  his  administration  steps 
were  taken  to  disband  the  six  Irish  companies  in  the 
militia  and  these  steps  were  carried  into  effect. 

Henry  J.  Gardner,  the  Know  Nothing  Governor  of 
Massachusetts,  also  issued  an  order  disbanding  the  Irish 
companies  of  the  militia  in  the  Bay  State.  Benjamin  F. 
Butler  was  at  that  time  colonel  of  a  Massachusetts  regi- 
ment. In  this  regiment  was  an  Irish  company — the 
Jackson  Musketeers,  of  Lowell.  Butler  refused  to  pro- 
mulgate the  disbanding  order  to  his  regiment,  quoted  the 
military  law  of  the  State,  and  challenged  the  Governor 
to  bring  him  before  a  court-martial.  Governor  Gardner 
did  not  dare  accept  the  challenge.  He  did,  however, 
issue  an  order  dismissing  Butler  from  command  of  the 
regiment,  but  Butler  refused  to  be  dismissed  and  again 
appealed  to  the  law.  Again  the  Know  Nothing  admin- 
istration halted,  nonplussed  by  Butler's  masterly  knowl- 
edge of  the  law  relating  to  the  case. 

Finally,  Governor  Gardner  and  his  accessories  found 


1 6     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

a  way  out  of  their  dilemma.    The  regiments  constituting 
the  militia  were  reorganized,  renumbered  and  relocated. 

Butler  was  thus  frozen  out,  and  the  Irish  companies 
throughout  the  State  had  to  suffer.  Butler,  however, 
soon  achieved  a  great  triumph  over  the  Know  Nothing 
governor.  In  a  short  time  after  the  reorganization  of  a 
brigade,  the  field  officers  got  together  to  elect  a  brigadier 
general  as  they  were  by  law  authorized  to  do.  They 
elected  Butler  to  the  position,  much  to  the  chagrin  of  the 
Governor  and  his  supporters.  Governor  Gardner  was 
obliged  to  sign  Butler's  commission  as  brigadier-general, 
and  had  he  hesitated  or  refused  to  do  so,  the  General 
would  have  promptly  got  after  him  with  a  mandamus  or 
taken  some  other  equally  prompt  step. 

On  August  i,  1855,  Capt.  Ruckoldt  of  the  New  Haven 
City  Guards,  (a  German  company),  stood  on  the  corner 
of  Chapel  and  Orange  streets,  New  Haven.  As  Capt. 
Thomas  W.  Cahill  and  Lieut.  Patrick  Maher  of  the 
Washington-Erina  Guards  approached,  Capt.  Ruckoldt 
said,  in  substance,  to  Capt.  Cahill  that  he  (Ruckoldt) 
had  met  Governor  Minor  in  the  lodge,  the  previous 
night,  and  had  learned  that  the  Governor  was  going  to 
disband  all  the  Irish  companies — giving  no  reasons — but 
that  he  was  going  to  retain  the  German  company. 

This  information  greatly  interested  his  two  hearers. 
The  fact  that  the  Irish  companies,  composed  of  American 
citizens,  were  to  be  disbanded,  and  that  the  German  com- 
pany, among  whose  members  there  were  not  over  ten 
citizens — the  rest  being  aliens — was  to  be  retained,  was 
especially  significant.  Capt.  Ruckoldt's  statement 
proved  quite  accurate. 

Gov.  Minor,  however,  experienced  some  difficulty  in 
having  his  disbanding  order  promulgated.  The  Irish 
companies  had  many  friends  in  the  State,  even  among 
the  old-line  stock.  The  Governor  discussed  his  scheme 
with  John  C.  Hollister,  Adjutant-General  of  the  State, 
with  the  result  that  Hollister  got  out  of  office.  But 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  I? 

Minor  was  determined  to  go  ahead.  So,  Justin  Hodge 
of  Barkhamsted,  a  veteran  of  the  Mexican  war,  was  made 
adjutant-general  to  succeed  Hollister.  Without  loss  of 
time,  the  Governor  issued  the  following: 

OFFICE  OF  THE  COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, 

STAMFORD,  August  24,  1855. 
JUSTIN  HODGE,  ESQ., 

Adjutant-General. 

DEAR  SIR  : — Military  Companies  organized  as  foreign 
Companies,  and  composed  entirely  of  the  foreign  born, 
are  believed  to  be  detrimental  to  the  military  interests  of 
our  State,  and  their  continuance  inconsistent  with  the 
spirit  of  our  Institutions,  therefore,  in  pursuance  with 
the  authority  vested  in  the  Commander-in-Chief  by  Sec- 
tion 26  of  the  statute  law1  of  this  State,  passed  May  ses- 
sion, 1854,  entitled,  an  Act  for  Forming  and  Conducting 
the  Military  Force,  the  following  Companies  being  com- 
posed of  the  foreign  born,  viz : 

Infantry  Company  F,  Hartford,        First  Regiment. 

C,  Norwich,  Third 

D,  New  Haven,  Second  " 

E,  New  Haven,  Second  " 
Rifle                           B,  Birmingham, 
Infantry                     B,  Bridgeport,  Eighth 

are  hereby  disbanded. 

You  will  issue  the  necessary  orders  for  the  purpose  of 
disbanding  each  of  the  foregoing  Companies,  and  notify 
the  Quartermaster-General  of  the  same,  that  the  arms 
and  equipments  of  each  of  said  Companies  belonging  to 
the  State  may  be  returned  to  the  Arsenal. 

Respectfully  yours, 
(Signed)         WILLIAM  T.  MINOR, 

Commander-in-Chief 

of  tJie  Connecticut  Militia. 

1  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  law  referred  to  : 

AN  ACT  FOR  FORMING  AND  CONDUCTING  THE  MILITARY  FORCE,  MAY  SESSION, 
1854.— Section  26.  The  commander-in-chief  is  hereby  fully  authorized  and  empow- 
ered to  disband  any  military  company  or  band,  as  the  interest  of  the  militia  in  his 
opinion  may  require;  to  discharge  commissioned  and  non-comissioned  officers,  and  all 
other  persons  who  have  performed  the  duty  required  by  this  act,  or  who,  from  incom- 
petence or  other  cause,  have  failed  to  perform  their  duty;  to  delegate  to  the  major- 
general  and  brigadier-generals  the  power  to  discharge  officers  and  other  persons,  and 
generally  to  exercise  all  the  powers  necessary  to  carry  into  full  effect  the  provision  of 
this  act. 


jg     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Adjutant-General  Hodge  refused  to  promulgate  the 
foregoing,  and  resigned.  The  Governor  was  then 
obliged  to  get  another  adjutant-general  to  do  his  bid- 
ding. He  selected  Joseph  D.  Williams  for  the  position, 
and  this  gentleman  did  the  work  required,  as  the  follow- 
ing order  shows : 

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S  OFFICE, 

HARTFORD,  Sept.  25,  1855. 

In  pursuance  of  the  foregoing  order  directed  to  Gen- 
eral Justin  Hodge,  dated  Aug.  24,  1855,  the  following 
Companies  have  been  disbanded,  viz: 

Infantry   Company  F,  Hartford,  ist  Regiment. 

C,  Norwich,  3rd 

D,  New  Haven,    2d 

E,  New  Haven,    2d 
Rifle                  '          B,  Birmingham,  2d 
Infantry                      B,  Bridgeport,       8th 

and  orders  have  been  issued  and  directed  to  the  com- 
manders of  the  Companies  with  the  Colonels  of  their 
respective  Regiments. 

(Signed)         J.  D.  WILLIAMS, 

A  djutant-GeneraL 

The  same  day,  Sept.  25,  Williams  issued  an  order  to 
each  commander  of  the  six  companies,  notifying  him  that 
his  company  was  "this  day  disbanded,"  and  directing  him 
to  return  State  property  to  the  Arsenal  at  Hartford.  The 
following  is  a  copy  of  the  order  issued  at  this  time  to 
Capt.  McKiernan,  of  Norwich : 

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S  OFFICE, 

HARTFORD,  Sept.  25,  1855. 
PATRICK  MCKIERNAN,  ESQ., 

Capt.  Com'd'g  Company  C.  $rd  Regt.,  Connecticut 

Militia, 
SIR: — 

By  order  of  the  Commander-in-Chief,  Infantry  Com- 
pany C,  3rd  Regt.,  Connecticut  Militia,  is  this  day  dis- 
banded. 


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In  pursuance  of  the  above  order  you  are  hereby 
directed  to  deliver  all  of  the  property  belonging  to  the 
State  in  your  possession  to  the  Quartermaster-General 
at  the  State  Arsenal  at  Hartford. 

Yours,  &c., 
(Signed)          J.  D.  WILLIAMS, 

A  d  jut  ant-General. 

The  orders  to  the  commanders  of  the  five  other  com- 
panies were  similar  in  phraseology,  and  were  addressed, 
respectively,  to  Capt.  Thomas  W.  Cahill,  Capt.  Edward 
McManus,  Capt.  M.  O'Connell,  Capt.  Patrick  McMahon, 
and  Lieut.  John  Maher,  Jr.  Adjutant-General  Williams 
also  issued  the  following: 

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S  OFFICE, 

HARTFORD,  Sept.  25,  1855. 
LEVI  WOODHOUSE,  ESQ., 

Quartermaster-General. 
SIR:—  ~ 

By  order  of  the  Commander-in-Chief,    the    following 
named  companies  have  been  this  day  disbanded,  viz : 
Infantry  Company  F,  Hartford,  ist  Regiment. 

C,  Norwich,  3rd 

D,  New  Haven,    2d 

E,  New  Haven,    2d 
Rifle                            B,  Birmingham,   2d 
Infantry                      B,  Bridgeport,       8th 

and  the  arms  and  equipments  of  said  companies  belong- 
ing to  the  State  have  been  ordered  into  your  Office.  If 
they  should  not  be  forthcoming  you  will  take  early  meas- 
ures to  enquire  into  the  cause. 

Yours,  &c., 
(Signed)          J.  D.  WILLIAMS, 

A  djutant-General. 

The  clisbandment  of  the  Irish  companies  occasioned 
great  dissatisfaction  throughout  the  State.  The  New 
Haven  Register,  speaking  of  Capt.  Cahill  and  his  com- 
pany (the  Washington-Erina  Guards,  Co.  E,  Second 
Regiment),  said: 


20      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

"Capt.  C.  is  himself  a  native  of  New  England — was 
born  within  a  stone's  throw  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  came 
with  his  parents  to  this  city,  before  he  was  a  year  old — 
and  has  steadily  resided  here  since.  He  is  as  intelligent 
and  patriotic  as  Gov.  Minor,  and  in  every  sense  as  good 
a  citizen.  He  is  one  of  the  best  officers  in  the  State,  and 
every  member  of  his  company  is  a  naturalized  citizen. 
No  breach  of  duty  is  charged  upon  them ;  no  unsoldierly 
act  is  alleged;  no  disrespect  of  superior  officers; 
no  contempt  of  orders ;  no  evidence  of  want  of  at- 
tachment to  the  country ;  but  a  full  compliance  by  them 
with  all  the  militia  laws  is  conceded.  We  hardly  know 
which  is  the  most  despicable — the  injustice  of  the  act,  or 
the  hypocrisy  which  attempts  to  excuse  it. 

"The  injustice  of  such  a  step  is  the  more  apparent  when 
it  is  remembered  that  by  the  law  under  which  this  com- 
pany was  mustered  and  enrolled,  it  is  provided  that  any 
person  who  shall  serve  seven  years  in  any  company, 
shall  be  exempt  from  the  poll  tax,  and  at  the  expiration 
of  that  term,  from  military  duty.  Here  are  men,  then, 
who  served  with  fidelity  nearly  four  years,  been  at  great 
expense  for  dress  and  equipments,  devoting  their  time 
and  money  to  the  service  of  this  State,  turned  off  without 
a  decent  apology  for  the  act,  and  the  contract  meanly 
abrogated!  We  have  no  patience  with  such  demagog- 
ism.  The  young  men  thus  attempted  to  be  disgraced, 
are  among  the  most  industrious  of  our  mechanics — most 
of  whom  either  came  here  in  infancy,  or  were  born  upon 
the  soil — and  are  'American  citizens,'  as  much  as  Gov. 
Minor  or  his  supple  Adjutant,  and  as  worthy  of  confi- 
dence. The  indignation  felt  by  all  classes  of  our  citizens, 
(outside  of  the  'midnight  conclave'  where  the  order 
originated),  is  intense ;  and  the  authors  of  it  have  only 
added  another  mill-stone  to  the  weight  which  is  rapidly 
sinking  them  to  an  infamy  as  merited  as  it  is  fathomless." 

The  Bridgeport  Farmer,  Oct.  2,  1855,  referring  to  the 
Montgomery  Guards  of  that  city,  another  of  the  dis- 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  2i 

banded  companies,  said :     "This  Company  B,  as  it  is  here 
called,  known  in  this  city  by  the  name  of  Montgomery 
Guards,  was  formed  in  1852,  by  Captain  Coates,  a  nat- 
uralized Irishman,  who  had  been  an  officer  of  some  grade, 
or  a  drill  master,  in  the  United  States  Army.     Mr.  Coates 
was  a  very  zealous  whig,  and  in  all  party  matters,  was 
particularly  intimate  with  Mr.  John  M.  Wilson,  now  one 
of  the  principal  managers  of  the  Know  Nothing  Inquisi- 
tion in  this  city.     All  the  members  of  the  company  are 
of  Irish  parentage,  we  believe,  though  some  of  them  are 
natives  of  this  country.     Those  of  them  who  were  not 
born  here,  have,  we  are  told,  been  duly  naturalized,  and 
of  course,  are  entitled  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges,  as 
well  as  to  all  the  name  of  American  citizens.     They  are 
all,  we  understand,  industrious    and    skillful   mechanics, 
*     *     *     *     They      have     expended     a     considerable 
amount  of  money  to  equip  themselves  with  uniforms,  etc., 
and  devoted  much  time  to  the  study  and  practice  of  infan- 
try tactics.     As  a  company,  and  as  individuals,  they  have 
discharged,  promptly  and  faithfully,  all  the  duties  that 
are    required    by   law,    and    at    the    regimental    muster, 
made    as     fine     an     appearance,   we    are    informed,    as 
any  company  on  the  field.    In  actual  service,  we  have  no 
doubt,  they  would  shed  their  blood   and   sacrifice   their 
lives  as  heroically,  in  defence  of  American  liberty,  as  any 
other  company  in  this  State,  not  excepting  even  Captain 
Minor's  favorite  company,  the  Stamford  Guards.       *     * 
"The  ground  on  which  this  disbandment  was  first  at- 
tempted to  be  justified,  was,  that  these  companies  were 
composed  chiefly    of   persons    not    naturalized.     But    it 
does  not  appear,  from  all  we  can  learn,  that  this  is  true 
in  relation  to  any  considerable  number.     Indeed,  nearly 
all  who  were  born  abroad,  have  been   duly   naturalized, 
and  taken  the  Elector's  oath,  to  support  the  Constitution 
of  this  State,  and  of  the  United  States — while  a  consid- 
erable portion  of  them  are  natives  of  this  or  some  of  the 
neighboring   States — and   all   devotedly  attached  to  our 


22      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

country  and  her  free  institutions.  It  cannot,  therefore, 
with  any  show  of  truth,  be  said  that  there  is  the  least 
ground  for  apprehension  on  account  of  any  allegiance 
they  may  owe  or  be  supposed  to  owe  to  any  foreign 
power.  Nor  does  it  appear  that  they  have  been  disobe- 
dient soldiers  or  refractory  citizens.  *  *  *  This 
disbandment  was  so  entirely  uncalled  for  and  un- 
justifiable, that  two  Adjutant- Generals  refused  to  obey 
the  order  of  the  Governor  for  that  purpose,  which 
was  issued  contrary  to  the  advice  and  remonstrances  of 
some  of  the  best  military  men  in  the  State.  The  decree 
had  been  uttered,  however,  by  the  Know  Nothing  Inqui- 
sition, and  Governor  Minor  was  required  to  see  it  en- 
forced." 

The  animus  of  the  Know  Nothings  against  the  Irish 
companies  had  a  racial  and  religious  basis.  These  com- 
panies were  Irish  and  Catholic.  The  "foreign"  company 
retained  was  German  and  Protestant.  The  fact  that  the 
Irish  companies  were  composed  of  American  citizens, 
and  the  German  company  mainly  of  aliens,  counted  for 
nothing  with  the  dark-lantern  plotters.  The  tactics  of 
the  latter,  however,  were  short-lived.  The  Know  Noth- 
ing party  was  soon  tumbled  from  power. 

The  Washington-Erina  Guards,  after  their  disband- 
ment in  1855,  as  a  military  company,  continued  to  meet 
as  a  social  organization,  until  May  18,  1857,  when  a  new 
organization  was  formed  in  New  Haven.  This  was  the 
famous  Emmet  Guard  of  that  place.  'Present  at  the 
meeting  for  organization  were  representatives  of  the 
Washington-Erina  and  Jackson  Guards,  the  latter  of 
which  had  also  been  disbanded  in  1855,  and  several  prom- 
inent adopted  citizens.  Capt.  Patrick  Maher  was  chair- 
man of  the  meeting,  and  Michael  McCarten  was  secre- 
tary. A  committee  was  appointed  to>  solicit  funds,  it  was 
decided  to  name  the  new  organization  the  Emmet  Guard, 
and  John  Bell  was  engaged  to  make  the  uniforms.  Capt. 
Maher,  as  a  committee  to  purchase  muskets,  subsequently 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  23 

waited  upon  Eli  Whitney  and  bought  the  required  num- 
ber of  guns  at  $3  each.  They  were  of  an  old  pattern,  but 
answered  the  purpose  very  well.  The  Emmets  became  a 
very  successful  organization,  acquired  great  proficiency 
in  drill  and  was  one  of  the  best  known  military  com- 
panies in  the  State. 

On  July  30,  1859,  the  Emmet  Guard  received  in  New 
Haven,  as  guests,  the  Irish  Fusiliers,  (Co.  A,  6o,th  Reg't, 
New  York),  at  that  time  commanded  by  Capt.  Michael 
Corcoran,  who  afterwards  became  a  General  and  was  in 
command  of  Corcoran's  Irish  Legion.  The  Emmets 
entertained  the  Fusiliers  in  New  Haven  over  July  31  and 
Aug.  i, and  displayed  true  Irish  hospitality.  The  company 
orders  issued  to>  the  Emmets,  for  this  occasion,  were 
signed  by  "Thomas  W.  Cahill,  Commandant,"  and  "P. 
McLaughlin,  Orderly  Sergeant."  These  orders  stated 
that  the  Hibernian,  Montgomery,  and  Carmen  societies 
of  New  Haven  would  also  participate,  on  the  evening  of 
July  30,  in  the  reception  to  the  visiting  organization.  In 
1860,  the  Emmets  made  a  return  visit  to  New  York  as 
the  guests  of  the  Fusiliers  and  were  handsomely  treated. 

The  Emmets  continued  drilling  and  perfecting  them- 
selves in  general  military  knowledge.  They  had  a  full 
set  of  regimental  officers,  so  that  when  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion  broke  out  there  was  material  and  ability 
enough  in  the  organization  to  officer  a  regiment  or  a 
brigade.  The  Emmet  Guard,  of  New  Haven,  was  a 
nucleus  in  the  formation  of  the  Ninth  Regiment,  C.  V., 
in  the  Civil  War,  and  furnished  two  or  three  companies 
and  sixteen  commissioned  officers  to  the  cause  of  the 
Union.  These  officers  were  as  follows. 

FORMER  RANK.  NAME.  REGIMENT.  RANK. 

Captain,  Thomas  W.  Cahill,     Ninth  Conn.,  \  C°!".  Ac*m 

(     Brig. -Gen. 

Captain,  Patrick  Maher,  Twenty-Fourth  Conn.,  Major. 

Second  Lieut.,  Michael  McCarten,  Ninth  Conn.,  Captain. 

Commissary,      M.A.Williams,  Ninth  Conn.,  Captain. 

Pioneer,  John  Carroll,  Ninth  Conn.,  First  Lieut. 


24     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


FORMER  RANK. 

Orderly  Sergt. 

Sergeant, 

Corporal, 

Corporal, 

Private, 

Private, 

Private, 

Private, 

Private, 

Private, 

Private, 


NAME. 

,  J.  P.  Hennessey, 
John  Shaw, 
T.  Sheridan, 
Francis  McKeon, 
John  G.  Healy, 
Lawrence  O'Brien, 
John  J.  Kealy, 
John  Murphy, 
John  McCusker, 
James  Lawler, 
F.  H.  Gallagher, 


REGIMENT. 

Ninth  Conn., 
Twenty-Fourth  Conn., 
Ninth  Conn., 
Ninth  Conn., 
Ninth  Conn. , 
Ninth  Conn., 
Twenty-Fourth  Conn., 
Twenty- Fourth  Conn. , 
Ninth  Conn., 
Ninth  Conn., 
Ninth  Conn., 


RANK. 

Captain. 
Second  Lieut. 
Captain. 
First  Lieut. 
Lieut. -Colonel. 
Captain. 
Captain. 
First  Lieut. 
Second  Lieut. 
Second  Lieut. 
Second  Lieut. 


COL.   THOMAS  W.   CAM  ILL. 
(Reproduced  from  a  War-Time  Print). 


CHAPTER  I. 

ORGANIZATION      OF      THE      NINTH SOME      PRELIMINARY 

EVENTS      LEADING     THERETO ACTIVITY    OF      IRISH- 
AMERICANS  IN  THE  CAUSE  OF  THE  UNION THE  FLAG 

DISPLAYED  ON   CATHOLIC  CHURCH  EDIFICES PATRI- 
OTIC  ACTION    BY   THE    REV.   THOMAS   F.    HENDRICKEN 

AND        OTHER        PRIESTS GOVERNOR        BUCKINGHAM 

FAVORS     THE     RAISING     OF     AN     IRISH     REGIMENT 

THOMAS  W.  CAHILL  IS  MADE  COLONEL. 

THE  War  of  the  Rebellion,  1861-1865,  was  one  of  the 
greatest  conflicts  in  all  history.  Huge  armies  were 
engaged,  and  the  naval  operations  were  also  conducted 
on  a  vast  scale.  Connecticut  was  one  of  the  most  loyal  of 
states.  She  responded  promptly  to  the  calls  of  President 
Lincoln  for  defenders  of  the  Union,  and  is  credited  with 
over  54,000  enlistments.  As  the  poet  John  Boyle 
O'Reilly  sings: 

"  Thrice  blest  the  nation  that  has  every  son 

A  soldier,  ready  for  the  warning  sound ; 
Who  marches  homeward  when  the  fight  is  done, 
To  swing  the  hammer  and  to  till  the  ground. 

"Call  back  that  morning,  with  its  lurid  light, 

When  through  our  land  the  awful  war  bell  tolled  ; 
When  lips  were  mute,  and  women's  faces  white 
As  the  pale  cloud  that  out  from  Sumter  rolled. 

"  Call  back  that  morn :  an  instant  all  were  dumb, 

As  if  the  shot  had  struck  the  Nation's  life ; 
Then  cleared  the  smoke,  and  rolled  the  calling  drum, 
And  men  streamed  in  to  meet  the  coming  strife." 

No  class  of  Connecticut  men  volunteered  with  greater 
alacrity  than  those  of  Irish  birth  or  descent.  It  has 
been  estimated  that  between  7,000  and  8,000  of  this  ele- 


26      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

ment  alone,  enlisted  into  the  various  regiments  that  went 
to  the  front  from  the  State.  They  were  represented  in 
the  infantry,  cavalry,  and  artillery.  Many  Connecticut 
men  of  Irish  lineage  also  enlisted  into  organizations 
credited  to  other  states  and  many  more  rendered  valiant 
service  in  the  navy. 

Many  were  killed  in  battle  and  thus  cemented  their 
devotion  to  the  Republic  with  their  blood.  Others,  per- 
ished of  wounds  or  disease,  while  still  others  returned 
home  crippled  for  life.  But  the  Nation  was  preserved 
and  so  their  sacrifices  were  not  in  vain.  A  grateful  people 
will  long  remember  its  Irish  heroes  who  wore  the  blue. 

Soon  after  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  Connecticut  began 
organizing  regiments  and  sending  them  forward  to  sup- 
port the  Flag.  Young  men  of  Irish  birth  or  extraction 
enlisted  in  these  early  regiments  by  the  hundred,  and 
were  as  zealous  as  any  descendant  of  the  Pilgrim  or  the 
Puritan  to  fight  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Union.  At 
frequent  intervals,  notices  were  published  in  the  daily 
papers,  throughout  the  State,  requesting  patriotic  young 
Irishmen  to  attend  meetings,  here  and  there,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  organizing  military  companies.  Prominent  men 
of  Irish  extraction  participated  in  great  "war  meetings," 
the  Stars  and  Stripes  were  displayed  on  Catholic  church 
edifices,  priests  addressed  their  flocks  on  the  great  issues 
of  the  hour,  and  everywhere  a  spirit  of  earnest  patriotism 
was  manifested.  The  insult  offered  the  Irish  element  by 
the  Know  Nothing  administration,  in  1855,  when  the  six 
companies  were  disbanded,  was  forgiven,  if  not  for- 
gotten, now  that  the  life  of  the  Nation  was  at  stake.  In 
the  New  Haven  Palladium,  April  20,  1861,  appeared  the 
following : 

"Our  Irish  fellow-citizens  are  strong  in  their  patriotic 
devotion  to  the  country  of  their  adoption,  At  a  very  en- 
thusiastic meeting  of  the  Emmet  Guard  last  evening  [in 
New  Haven]  it  was  determined  to  offer  their  services  to 
the  Government  as  soon  as  they  shall  have  been  recog- 
nized as  citizens  and  soldiers  by  the  Governor. 


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"The  McGowan  Guards,  too,  a  target  company, 
formed  some  two  years  ago,  will  tender  their  services  as 
soon  as  the  Emmets  shall  have  done  so,  and  the  two 
companies  will  prove  themselves  among  the  best  of  the 
soldiers  who  are  to  fight  for  the  flag." 

In  its  issue  of  April  22,  1861,  the  Palladium  said: 
"We  are  glad  to  hear  that  Governor  Buckingham, 
in  a  letter  to  Captain  Cahill,  of  the  Emmet  Guard,  has 
informed  him  that  the  officers  chosen  by  that  company 
shall  be  fully  commissioned  immediately  upon  being 
reported  by  the  Adjutant-General,  without  the  usual 
formalities  attending  the  organization  of  military  com- 
panies." 

In  the  Palladium  for  May  15,  1861,  appeared  the  fol- 
lowing notice:  "All  patriotic  young  Irishmen  who 
desire  to  defend  the  flag  of  their  adopted  country,  and  to 
serve  for  three  years,  or  during  the  war,  are  requested  to 
meet  at  Hibernian  Hall,  [New  Haven],  this  evening,  at 
7£  o'clock.  Particulars  given  by  M.  A.  Williams,  as  per 
instructions.  It  is  intended  to  attach  this  company  to 
Colt's  Regiment,  to-  be  armed  with  Colt's  Rifles.  We 
understand  that  this  regiment  will  be  commanded  by 
United  States  officers." 

In  its  issue  the  next  day,  May  16,  1861,  the  Palladium, 
referring  to  this  meeting,  said :  "The  military  meeting 
at  Hibernian  Hall  last  evening  was  large  and  enthusi- 
astic. Mr.  Michael  A.  Williams  was  elected  Chairman, 
and  John  Brown,  secretary.  This  meeting  was  held  for 
the  purpose  of  organizing  a  military  company  for  three 
years'  service.  The  meeting  adjourned  to  meet  this 
evening  at  Healy's  Hotel,  in  Broad  street,  where  those 
who  wish  to  enlist  can  have  the  opportunity." 

On  April  25,  1861,  the  Palladium  notes  that  "A  mag- 
nificent American  flag  was  last  night  hoisted  on  the  spire 
of  St.  Patrick's  church  on  Grand  street  [New  Haven]. 
It  shows — as  have  many  similar  demonstrations — that 
our  adopted  citizens  are  with  us  in  the  support  of  the 
Government." 


28      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Early  in  the  war,  the  Rev.  Thomas  F.  Hendricken,  of 
Waterbury,  Ct.,  (afterwards  bishop  of  the  diocese  of 
Providence,  R.  I.),  called  a  meeting  of  the  young  men  of 
his  parish.  The  meeting  was  held  in  the  basement  of  the 
church  and  a  military  company  was  organized  and  its 
services  offered  to  Governor  Buckingham.  It  was  in- 
tended to  serve  for  three  months.  As  the  short-time 
regiments  were  then  full,  the  company  waited  and  was 
finally  mustered  into  the  Ninth.  The  Croffut-Morris 
history  of  Connecticut  in  the  Rebellion,  speaking  of 
Waterbury's  part  in  helping  the  cause  of  the  Union, 
states  that  a  company,  the  City  Guard,  of  that  place,  was 
promptly  recruited  to  the  maximum  and  its  services 
offered  to  the  Governor.  On  April  20,  1861,  "it  left  for 
New  Haven,  being  escorted  to  the  depot  by  an  immense 
crowd  of  citizens  and  civil  societies,  and  a  speech  of  fare- 
well being  made  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hendricken  of  the  Catholic 
church."  The  same  work  also  states  that  about  the  same 
time,  "A  beautiful  American  flag  was  raised  over  the  old 
Catholic  church,  [in  Waterbury]  ;  the  three  hundred 
Catholic  pupils,  under  the  direction  of  the  Misses  Slater, 
participating  in  the  patriotic  ceremonies.  The  Irish 
Catholics  assembled,  and  fifty  voted  to  volunteer." 

One  of  the  leading  spirits  at  a  great  war  meeting  in 
Middletown,  Ct.,  at  this  time,  was  M.  H.  Griffin,  a  promi- 
nent Democrat.  He  "was  a  loyal  Irish-American  of 
wealth  and  influence  in  Middletown,  and  he  gave  all  his 
efforts  to  the  work  of  prosecuting  the  war.  He  incited 
a  spirit  of  patriotism  by  personal  appeals  in  the  street 
and  in  the  workshop,  gave  freely  of  his  money  and  his 
time,  and  zealously  promoted  the  work  of  organization 
and  equipment  for  the  front." 

In  the  Croffut-Morris  history,  already  quoted,  it  is 
stated  that  "A  fine  company  of  Irishmen  from  Norwich 
was  raised  for  the  Fifth  Regiment;  but  it  finally  joined 
the  First  New  York  Artillery.  Capt.  Thomas  Maguire 
became  major  of  the  regiment,  and  was  succeeded  by 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  29 

Capt.  William  A.  Berry,  killed  in  front  of  Petersburg. 
He  in  turn  was  succeeded  by  Capt.  Thomas  Scott  of  Nor- 
wich." 

Early  in  the  war,  the  project  of  forming  a  distinctively 
Irish  regiment,1  in  Connecticut,  was  suggested,  and  re- 
ceived the  favorable  consideration  of  Governor  Bucking- 
ham. He  thoroughly  disapproved  of  the  Know  Nothing 
tactics,  of  1855.  His  activity  in  securing  justice  for  the 
companies  that  had  been  arbitrarily  disbanded  by  Gov- 
ernor Minor  also  did  credit  to  his  head  and  heart. 

At  the  May  session  of  the  General  Assembly,  1861, 
Mr.  Gallagher  of  New  Haven  introduced  in  the  House 
of  Representatives,  May  3,  a  joint  resolution  reinstating 
as  a  part  of  the  military  force  of  the  State  all  regularly 
organized  military  companies,  composed  of  foreign  born 
citizens  that  were  disbanded  in  1855,  and  also  reinstating 
their  respective  officers  to  take  rank  from  the  date  of 
their  several  commissions ;  also  providing  for  paying  said 
companies  for  armory  rent,  and  the  performance  of  mili- 
tary duty  as  if  said  companies  had  not  been  disbanded. 

"The  resolution  was  read  the  first  time,  and  by  order 
of  the  House  (the  rule  being  dispensed  with),  the  second 
time,  and,  on  motion,  was  referred  to  the  Joint  Standing 
Committee  on  Military  Affairs." 

Another  extract  from  the  Journal  of  the  House,  at  this 
time,  reads :  "Tuesday  Morning,  May  28.  The  report 
of  the  Joint  Standing  Committee  on  Military  Affairs,  to 
whom  was  referred  the  joint  resolution  reinstating  as  a 
part  of  the  military  force  of  this  State  all  regularly  organ- 
ized military  companies,  composed  of  foreign  born  citi- 

1  There  were  many  Irish  regiments  in  the  Union  army  during  the  war.  Among 
them  were  the  Tenth  New  Hampshire,  Ninth  Massachusetts,  Twenty-eighth  Massa- 
chusetts, Thirty-seventh  New  York,  Sixty-third  New  York,  Sixty-ninth  New  York, 
Eighty-eighth  New  York,  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fifth  New  York,  One  Hundred  and 
Sixty-fourth  New  York,  One  Hundred  and  Seventieth  New  York,  Seventeenth  Wis- 
consin, Twenty-third  Illinois,  Nintieth  Illinois,  Seventh  Missouri,  Fifteenth  Michi- 
gan, etc.  There  were  many  other  regiments  in  the  service  which,  while  not  known 
as  Irish  regiments,  were  largely  composed  of  men  of  Irish  birth  or  parentage.  The 
Third  Rhode  Island  Heavy  Artillery  was  one  of  these.  Corcoran's  Irish  Legion  and 
Meagher's  Irish  Brigade  covered  themselves  with  glory  during  the  struggle. 


3o     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

zens,  that  were  disbanded  in  1855,  and  also  reinstating 
their  respective  officers  to  take  rank  from  the  date  of  their 
several  commissions;  also  providing  for  paying  said 
companies  for  armory  rent,  and  the  performance  of  mili- 
tary duty  as  if  said  companies  had  not  been  disbanded, 
by  authorizing  the  Comptroller  to  draw  an  order  on  the 
Treasurer,  in  favor  of  the  captain  or  senior  lieutenant  of 
such  companies,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  each  of  said 
companies,  on  receipt  of  satisfactory  evidence  of  their 
having  performed  military  duty  and  paid  armory  rent," 
was  received  from  the  Senate.  It  was  adverse  to  the 
passage  of  the  resolution,  but  recommended  "the  passage 
of  a  substitute  resolution  therefor,  submitted  by  the  Com- 
mittee, providing  for  the  legal  and  honorable  discharge 
of  the  military  companies  of  adopted  citizens  disbanded 
in  the  year  1855,  from  the  performance  of  further  active 
military  duty  in  the  same  manner  that  they  would  have 
been  discharged  if  they  had  served  lor  the  full  term  of 
five  and  seven  years  under  the  laws  of  this  State."  The 
report  of  the  Committee  was  accepted,  the  resolution 
originally  referred  to  the  Committee  was  rejected,  and 
the  substitute  recommended  by  the  Committee  was 
passed. 

The  substitute  resolution  here  mentioned  was  finally 
adopted,  by  both  House  and  Senate,  and  thus  the  Know 
Nothing  stain  was  removed  from  the  fair  escutcheon  of 
Connecticut,  so  far  as  that  stain  had  affected  the  reputa- 
tion of  the  Irish  companies. 

The  difference  between  the  original  resolution,  which 
was  rejected,  and  the  substitute  which  was  passed,  con- 
sisted, briefly,  in  this:  The  original  resolution  provided 
that  the  disbanded  companies  and  their  officers  should 
be  reinstated  as  a  part  of  the  military  force  of  the  State, 
and  that  the  companies  thus  reinstated  should  receive 
payment  for  armory  rent  and  military  duty  performed 
from  the  time  of  their  disbandment,  in  1855,  down.  The 
substitute  provided  for  the  honorable  discharge  of  the 


W 'A  R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  31 

companies  and  their  officers,  and  did  not  provide  for 
armory  rent  or  for  payment  for  military  duty  since  1855. 
This  arrangement,  while  not  fully  realizing  the  expecta- 
tions of  the  friends  of  the  original  resolution,  was,  never- 
theless, a  fair  one  under  existing  circumstances.  It  ac- 
knowledged and  vindicated  the  loyalty  of  the  Irish 
companies,  which  loyalty  had  been  questioned  and 
assailed  by  the  Know  Nothing  regime. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  Governor  Bucking- 
ham's inaugural  address,  1861 : 

The  requisition  for  troops  from  the  Secretary  of  War, 
did  not  call  for  chaplains.  I  have,  however,  no  hesita- 
tion in  recommending  the  appointment  of  one  to  each 
regiment,  at  the  expense  of  this  State ;  and  as  many  of 
our  adopted  citizens,  connected  with  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  have  manifested  their  loyalty  by  uniting  with  the 
volunteers,  I  would  recommend,  also,  the  appointment 
of  two  additional  chaplains  of  that  religious  faith  to  each 
brigade. 

The  following  communication  was  also  of  especial 
significance ;  it  shows  that  the  idea  of  an  Irish  regiment 
had  been  entertained  even  previous  to  the  passage  of  the 
foregoing  legislation : 

STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT, 
OFFICE  OF  THE  COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, 

NORWICH,  April  26,  1861. 
CAPT.  THOS.  W.  CAHILL, 

EMMET  GUARD. 

DEAR  SIR: — Yours  of  the  25th  inst,  enclosing  the 
resolutions  of  the  Emmet  Guard,  asking  "Whether  the 
services  of  a  regiment  composed  of  Irish  adopted  citizens 
would  be  received  by  the  State  authorities  with  the  under- 
standing that  the  regiment  nominate  their  own  officers 
throughout?"  [is  received]. 

In  reply,  I  am  directed  by  the  Governor  to  say  that  a 
regiment  composed  of  Irish  adopted  citizens  would  be 
received  and  the  wishes  of  the  regiment  consulted  and 


32      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

respected  in  the  appointment  of  officers.     No  one  would 
intentionally  be  pressed  who  was  unacceptable. 

Very  respectfully, 

O.  N.  SHIPMAN, 

Executive  Secretary. 

On  May  3,  1861,  Mr.  Byington  introduced,  in  the  State 
Senate,  the  following: 

WHEREAS,  Honorable  mention  has  been  made  of  the 
fidelity  and  patriotism  of  our  adopted  citizens,  by  the 
Governor  of  the  State  in  his  usual  message  to  this  body, 
and 

WHEREAS,  It  being  understood  that  large  numbers  of 
this  class  of  our  fellow  citizens  desire  to  organize  them- 
selves into  a  regiment  for  the  defence  of  our  common 
country,  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  the  Governor  be,  and  he  hereby  is,  re- 
quested to  accept  such  regiment  of  adopted  citizens,  and 
to>  muster  them  into  service  as  necessity  or  occasion  may 
require. 

On  motion  the  resolution  was  referred  to  the  Joint 
Standing  Committee  on  Military  Affairs. 

As  soon  as  it  was  decided  to  form  an  Irish  regiment, 
much  enthusiasm  was  manifested  in  the  interest  of  such 
an  organization,  and  great  activity  prevailed.  Recruit- 
ing places  were  established,  patriotic  appeals  were  issued 
through  the  press  and  from  the  platform,  posters  were 
put  up,  inviting  enlistments,  and  other  effective  steps 
taken.  Recruits  began  to  pour  in.  One  company,  (A), 
and  the  nucleus  of  two  others,  for  the  new  regiment,  went 
into  camp  at  Hartford.  Great  interest  in  "The  Irish 
Regiment"1  was  manifested  in  New  Haven,  Bridgeport, 
Hartford,  Waterbury,  Meriden,  Norwich  and  many  other 
places  throughout  the  State.  No  longer  were  heard 
sneers  at  the  "foreign-born."  The  Know  Nothing  cabal 

1  Certain  regiments  organized  in  Connecticut  were  called  at  home  by  such  names 
as  "The  Lyon  Regiment,"  "The  Charter  Oak  Regiment,"  "  The  Irish  Regiment," 
etc. 


LIEUT.  COL.   RICHARD  FIT/  GIIUION. 
(Reproduced  from  a  War-Time  Print). 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  33 

had  been  driven  from  power  by  an  indignant  people. 
vStrong  arms  were  needed  to  defend  the  Nation  and  the 
Irish  of  Connecticut  nobly  responded.  On  May  17,  1861, 
the  following  notice  under  the  head  "A  Chance  for  Vol- 
unteers," appeared  in  the  Newr  Haven  Palladium:  "A 
recruiting  office  is  now  opened  in  Engineers'  Hall,  Arti- 
zan  street,  [New  Haven],  to  those  who  would  serve  the 
country  and  protect  its  flag.  Office  open  every  evening 
from  7  until  9  o'clock,  when  persons  can  receive  all 
necessary  information.  John  Duffy." 

The  following  is  the  text  of  a  poster  displayed  at  New 
Haven  and  probably  elsewhere :  "Forward  the  Qth !" 
Here  followed  a  woodcut  of  an  American  eagle  defend- 
ing the  American  shield.  The  poster  then  continued: 
"9th  Regiment,  Irish  Volunteers !  This  destined  to  be 
gallant  Regiment,  organized  under  the  auspices  of  His 
Excellency,  the  Governor  of  this  State,  to  be  officered  by 
Irishmen  throughout,  is  now  rapidly  filling  up.  All  per- 
sons wishing  to  join,  can  receive  further  information  at 
the  Headquarters,  in  Crown  street,  3  doors  from  Church 
street,  New  Haven,  Conn." 

Another  poster  with  the  heading  "Forward  the  Ninth  !" 
displayed  an  eagle  holding  the  inscription,  "The  Union 
must  be  preserved."  The  poster  then  went  on  to  say 
that  "The  Emmet  Guards,  lately  commanded  by  Thomas 
W.  Cahill,  now  Colonel  of  the  9th  Regiment,  Connecti- 
cut Volunteers,  require  a  few  more  men  to  complete  the 
maximum  number  required  by  the  State.  Application 
may  be  made  at  the  camp  ground  or  at  the  tent  on  the 
green."  Then  followed  information  as  to  the  pay  of  pri- 
vates, the  matter  of  bounty,  etc.,  as  follows :  United 
States  pay  per  month,  $13 ;  Bounty  from  State  of  Con- 
necticut, per  year,  $30;  Bounty  to  soldiers  wife,  per 
month,  $6;  Bounty  to  wife  and  child  per  month, 
$8;  Bounty  to  wife  and  two  children,  per  month, 
$10,  "making  the  pay  of  privates  who  enlist  in  Connecti- 
cut companies  range  from  fifteen  dollars  and  fifty  cents  to 


34     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

twenty-five  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  according  to  size  of 
family.  In  addition,  $100  of  bounty  from  the  United 
States  when  honorably  discharged."  This  poster  was 
signed :  "Michael  McCarten,  Captain." 

Capt.  Cahill  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Ninth, 
Sept.  3,  1 86 1.  Lieut-Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gibbon1  and 
Major  Frederick  Frye,  of  the  regiment,  had  already  seen 
active  service  in  the  field,  the  former  as  a  captain  in  the 
First  Regiment,  C.  V.,  and  the  latter  as  a  captain  in  the 
Third  Regiment,  C.  V. 

Under  the  head  of  "The  Emmet  Guard  Going,"  the 
New  Haven  Palladium,  Sept.  5,  1861,  states  that  "At  a 
large  and  enthusiastic  meeting  of  the  Emmet  Guard, 
[New  Haven],  last  evening,  Lieutenant  Maher  in  the 
chair,  it  was  voted  to<  enlist  for  the  war.  The  meeting 
was  addressed  by  Col.  (late  Capt.)  Cahill  in  a  feeling  and 
eloquent  manner.  They  will  meet  at  their  armory  to- 
morrow night  to  receive  such  members  as  may  wish  to 
join  their  war  organization."  At  the  meeting,  Sept.  4, 
here  described,  the  Emmets  adopted  a  preamble  and  reso- 
lutions, regretting  the  loss  of  Cahill  as  captain  of  the 
Guard,  but  expressing  satisfaction  at  his  promotion  to 
the  rank  of  Colonel  of  the  Ninth  Regiment.  Thanks 
were  also*  extended  Lieut.  McCarten,  "who  now  retires  to 
occupy  a  more  advanced  position."  The  committee  on 
these  resolutions  consisted  of  Engineer  McCaffrey,  Lieut. 
Wrinn  and  Adjutant  Geary. 

On  Sept.  9,  1861,  the  New  Haven  Palladium  stated 
that  "The  Qth  (Irish)  Regiment,  C.  V.,  is  to  be  removed 
to-day  or  to-morrow  from  their  present  camp  ground  at 
Hartford  to  this  city,  taking  position  on  Mr.  Hallock's 
field  at  the  right  of  the  6th  and  7th.  This  is  done  be- 
cause it  is  apparent  that  the  regiment  will  be  largely  re- 
cruited from  this  section  of  the  State.  On  this  account 
— although  we  believe  the  Hartford  camps  to  be  com- 
fortably situated — we  welcome  the  change  as  a  good  one. 

1Generally  spelled  Fitz  Gibbons  in  the  records. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  35 

The  regiment  will  probably  be  filled  in  ten  days  from 
this  time." 

Sept.  10,  1 86 1,  the  Palladium  notes  that  the  Emmet 
Guard,  of  New  Haven,  "led  by  Colonel  (late  Captain) 
Cahill,  made  a  very  fine  show  in  their  parade  yesterday 
afternoon.  At  its  close,  Mr.  Bartholomew  Healy  gave 
them  a  fine  entertainment  at  the  Broad  Street  Hotel. 
The  parade  was  a  very  admirable  one,  which  did  much 
credit  to  those  engaged  in  it." 

In  the  Hartford  Courant,  Sept.  12,  1861,  appeared  the 
following :  "Lieut.  Wm.  Wright,  late  of  the  3d  Regiment, 
C.  V.,  will  open  a  recruiting  office  to-day,  under  the 
American  Hall,  [Hartford],  for  the  purpose  of  enlisting 
a  company  for  the  9th  Regiment.  He  is  desirous  of 
having  his  company  composed  exclusively  of  Irishmen; 
and  as  there  has  not  been  a  company  raised  as  yet  in  this 
city  for  the  Qth  Regiment,  it  is  to  be  hoped  he  will  meet 
with  liberal  encouragement.  There  is  no  reason  why 
Hartford  should  not  be  represented  by  a  full  com- 
pany of  Irishmen  in  the  Qth,  under  Col.  Cahill ;  they  can 
be  raised,  and  Lieut.  Wright  will  do  it.  Go  and  hear 
Father  Quinn's  lecture  at  St.  Peter's  church  to-night. 
He  will  tell  you  all  about  the  war."  This  is  believed  to 
have  been  the  Father  Quinn  who  was  chaplain  in  a 
Rhode  Island  regiment.  Lieut.  Wright  was  commis- 
sioned Captain  of  Co.  G,  of  the  Ninth,  and  was  one  of 
the  best  officers  that  ever  carried  a  sword. 


CHAPTER   II. 

THE   NINTH   IN   "CAMP  WELCH,"   NEW   HAVEN THE   REGI- 
MENT   ATTENDS    MASS    AT    ST.    JOHN'S    CHURCH THE 

REV.  DANIEL  MULLEN  BECOMES  CHAPLAIN  OF  THE 
COMMAND LIST  OF  CONNECTICUT  PLACES  REPRE- 
SENTED IN  THE  REGIMENT GEN.  B.  F.  BUTLER  AC- 
CEPTS THE  ORGANIZATION  FOR  HIS  NEW  ENGLAND 
DIVISION. 

THE  rendezvous  of  the  Ninth,  being  finally  estab- 
lished in  New  Haven,  was  named  "Camp  Welch" 
in  honor  of  the  then  mayor  of  the  city.  Col.  Cahill 
issued  his  first  regimental  order  Sept.  19,  1861.  He 
states  that  "In  issuing  this,  the  first  order,  the  command- 
ant feels  that  not  a  moment  should  be  lost  which  can  be 
used  to  advance  the  military  knowledge  so  necessary  to 
every  man  who  aspires  to  be  a  soldier.  For  this  reason, 
it  will  be  necessary  for  commandants  of  companies  to 
devote  every  possible  moment  to  the  purposes  of  drill 
and  instruction  of  their  respective  companies.  All  offi- 
cers in  command  will,  therefore,  observe  the  following 
order  until  further  notice.  *  *  *  "  He  then  orders 
that  at  reveille,  "the  men  of  each  command  will  turn  out 
on  their  respective  company  grounds,  and  place  their 
tents  and  quarters  in  proper  order  under  direction  of  the 
commandants,  until  the  chiefs  of  squads  are  appointed, 
and  the  guard  tents  by  the  guard  or  prisoners.  The 
companies  will  turn  out  promptly  for  drill  at  7j  o'clock 
a.  m.,  until  o/|  a.  m.,  at  which  time  the  companies  will 
assemble  on  their  respective  grounds  for  detail  for  guard 
mounting  and  other  duty.  The  men  and  officers  will 
again  fall  in  for  drill  at  2  o'clock  p.  m.,  until  4  o'clock 
p.  m.  The  roll  will  be  called  every  morning  at  reveille, 
and  the  reports  submitted  to  Lieut.-Col.  Fitz  Gibbons  for 
inspection  and  consolidation." 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  37 

A  representative  of  the  New  Haven  Register  had 
visited  the  camp  Sept.  10,  1861,  and  stated  in  his  paper 
the  next  day  that  "We  strolled  through  the  camp  of  the 
6th,  7th  and  Qth  Regiments  yesterday,  and  were  gratified 
with  the  neat  and  tidy  appearance  of  the  grounds  and 
equipage.  The  men  appeared  cheerful  and  contented. 
They  appear  to  be  an  excellent  body  of  men.  No  com- 
plaints are  heard  about,  "rations,"  and  the  officers  are  one 
and  all  bending  down  to  the  work  of  preparing  the  men 
for  active  service.  *  *  * 

Early  in  the  history  of  the  Ninth,  a  band  was  organ- 
ized and  comprised  some  of  the  best  musicians  in  the 
State.  The  organization  numbered,  at  the  start,  25 
members  with  Christian  Streit  as  leader.  The  places 
represented  were  New  Haven,  East  Haven,  Meriden, 
Brooklyn,  Clinton,  Wallingford  and  Naugatuck.  It 
was  stated  to  have  been  one  of  the  best  bands  that  ever 
marched  at  the  head  of  a  regiment. 

While  the  Ninth  was  overwhelmingly  composed  of 
men  who  were  of  Irish  blood,  and  Catholic  in  creed, 
quite  a  number  in  the  command  were  neither  Irish  nor 
Catholic.  But  all  were  patriots  and  were  united,  like  a 
band  of  brothers,  to  defend  the  Flag.  In  no  regiment 
that  went  to  the  front  was  there  a  more  intense  American 
spirit  or  more  loyal  devotion  to  the  cause  of  the  Union. 

While  the  Ninth  was  in  Camp  Welch,1  New  Haven, 
many  events  of  interest  took  place.  Visitors  to  the 
camp  were  numerous  and  much  interest  was  shown 
toward  the  regiment.  On  one  occasion,  George  A. 
Shubert,  of  New  Haven,  sent  Capt.  Michael  McCarten  a 
check  for  $50  as  a  contribution  to  the  latter's 
company.  Mr.  Shubert's  generosity  was  promptly  and 
cordially  acknowledged  by  the  Captain,  Sept.  28,  1861. 
On  another  occasion,  the  following  event  took  place  as 
narrated  in  a  New  Haven  paper: 

1Referred    to    sometimes    as   "Camp   English."      The    Fifteenth    Connecticut 
named  their  quarters  in  that  vicinity,  "Camp  Lyon." 


38     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

"PRESENTATION. — Quite  a  pleasant  affair  came  off  at 
the  residence  of  Mr.  Thomas  Healy,  No.  16  Factory 
street,  [New  Haven],  on  Wednesday  evening,  it  being 
the  presentation  of  three  fine  regulation  swords,  with  all 
the  necessary  accompaniments,  together  with  pistols,  to 
Captain  McCarten,  Lieutenants  John  G.  Healy  and  John 
Shaw,  of  the  "Emmets,"  9th  Regiment,  C.  V.  Sergeants 
McKenna  and  Gately,  of  the  same  Company,  were  also 
the  recipients  of  two  fine  pistols.  The  articles  were  the 
gifts  of  several  of  our  influential  citizens,  and  were  pre- 
sented on  behalf  of  the  donors,  by  Wm.  Downes,  Esq., 
whose  remarks  were  appropriately  responded  to  by  the 
fortunate  recipients.  Remarks  were  also  made  by  Mr. 
Bartholomew  Healy,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Healy,  (father  of 
Lieut.  Healy),  who  regretted  that  his  age  disqualified 
him  from  entering  with  his  son  into  the  service  of  this, 
his  adopted  country.  The  ceremonies,  which  were  of  a 
very  interesting  nature,  being  concluded,  the  party,  at 
the  invitation  of  Mr.  H.  partook  of  a  most  bountiful  sup- 
ply of  refreshments,  and  adjourned  at  an  early  hour,  feel- 
ing conscious  that  they  had  participated  in  the  ceremo- 
nies of  placing  in  the  hands  of  men,  implements  which 
would  be  wielded  powerfully  by  them  in  defence  of  this, 
our  glorious  country." 

About  this  time,  also,  a  sword,  sash  and  belt  were  pre- 
sented Capt.  Duffy  of  the  Ninth.  The  sword  was  of 
French  manufacture,  had  a  double-gilt  hilt,  and  bore  the 
inscription:  "Presented  to  Capt.  John  Duffy  by  Citizens 
of  New  Haven,  Oct.,  1861."  The  Palladium  stated  at  the 
time  that  the  sword,  belt  and  sash  would  be  "on  exhibi- 
tion in  Malley's  window  on  Chapel  street."  In  the  Palla- 
dium, Oct.  28,  1861,  is  a  paragraph  stating  that  "Lieut. 
Lawrence  O'Brien,  of  the  gth  Regiment,  C.  V.,  was  pre- 
sented with  a  sword,  sash,  belt,  etc.,  by  the  Sodality  of 
the  B.  V.  M.,  a  society  connected  with  St.  Patrick's 
church,  [New  Haven].  It  was  a  good  gift  to  a  worthy 
officer."  Other  commissioned  officers  in  the  regiment 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  39 

were  similarly  honored  by  various  organizations  and 
friends.  Lieut.  Daniel  Carroll,  for  instance,  was  pre- 
sented a  sword,  sash  and  belt  by  the  Davis  Literary 
Institute  of  New  Haven,  and  other  friends.  The  presenta- 
tion speech  was  delivered  by  Robert  Scully,  to  which  the 
recipient  feelingly  replied.  There  were  also  addresses  by 
Patrick  Sisk,  B.  Hogan  and  other  gentlemen.  The 
Hartford  C  our  ant,  Nov.  2,  1861,  stated  that  "Lieutenants 
Clinton  and  Burke  of  Capt.  Wright's  Company  of  this 
city,  were  presented,  Thursday,  with  sword,  sash  and 
belt,  by  their  friends  in  Hartford." 

In  its  issue  of  Oct.  8,  1861,  the  New  Haven  Palladium 
says :  "  *  *  *  We  are  personally  acquainted  with 
Capt.  William  Wright  of  Hartford,  a  graduate  of  Trinity 
College,  Dublin,  formerly  for  some  years  in  the  English 
army,  who  is  now  filling  up  a  company  for  this  [the 
Ninth]  regiment.  He  lacks  only  about  twenty  men,  and 
we  give  our  assurance  that  they  could  not  go  under  a  bet- 
ter leader.  Capt.  Wright  resigned  an  appointment  in 
the  regular  U.  S.  Army — having  previously  served  in  the 
three  months  volunteers — and  ought  to  have  his  com- 
pany immediately  rilled.  We  wish  all  success  to  the  gth 
Regiment  and  to  him." 

The  Ninth  was  under  the  disadvantage,  while  encamped 
at  New  Haven,  of  not  having  arms,  the  latter  not  yet 
having  been  supplied.  Enough  Whitney  guns  were  ob- 
tained, however,  to  admit  of  guard  mounting,  but  beyond 
these  few,  the  men  were  deprived  of  the  benefit  they 
would  have  derived  from  the  possession  of  guns.  The 
latter  were  not  delivered  to  the  regiment  until  it  had 
reached  Ship  Island,  Miss.  In  the  meantime,  however, 
much  solid  work  was  devoted  to  marching  and  other 
evolutions,  the  drill  being  constant  and  thorough.  The 
men  rapidly  learned  the  duties  of  the  soldier,  in  camp 
and  on  the  march,  and  were  also  instructed  as  to  manoeu- 
vres in  skirmish  and  battle.  The  Ninth  was  composed 
of  splendid  material,  as  was  subsequently  acknowledged 


40     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

by  Gen.  Phelps,  Gen.  Butler  and  other  competent  author- 
ities. Its  record  at  the  front,  in  fidelity  and  bravery,  was 
excelled  by  no  regiment  in  the  service.  A  uniform  of 
blue  was  furnished  the  regiment  by  the  State,  while  en- 
camped at  New  Haven,  but  without  arms  the  regiment's 
progress  was,  of  course,  somewhat  retarded,  in  certain 
respects,  at  that  time.  However,  this  was  speedily  made 
up  when  the  command  went  South. 

Previous  to  its  departure  from  New  Haven,  in  1861, 
the  regiment  used  to  attend  Mass,  on  Sunday,  at  St. 
John's  church,  and  on  at  least  one  occasion,  Mass  was 
celebrated  in  Camp  Welch  by  the  Rev.  John  Smith  of  the 
church  just  mentioned.  On  Nov.  17,  1861,  the  Rev. 
Daniel  Mullen,  of  Winchester  (Winsted),  enlisted  into 
the  regiment  as  chaplain  of  the  latter,  and  remained  with 
it  until  late  in  August,  1862,  when  poor  health  compelled 
him  to  resign. 

Among  the  Connecticut  places  represented  in  the 
regiment  were  the  following: 


Berlin, 

Farmington, 

Newtown, 

Bethany, 

Greenwich, 

Norfolk, 

Bethel, 

Griswold, 

North  Canaan, 

Bloomfield, 

Groton, 

Norwich, 

Branford, 

Guilford, 

Plainfield, 

Bridgeport, 

Hamden, 

Plymouth, 

Bridgewater, 

Hampton, 

Portland, 

Bristol, 

Hartford, 

Redding, 

Brooklyn, 

Huntington, 

Ridgefield, 

Burlington, 

Litchfield, 

Salisbury, 

Canaan, 

Lyme, 

Saybrook, 

Cheshire, 

Manchester, 

Seymour, 

Clinton, 

Meriden, 

Simsbury, 

Colebrook, 

Middletown, 

Southing-ton, 

Cromwell, 

Milford, 

Stafford, 

Danbury, 

Monroe, 

Stamford, 

Derby, 

Morris, 

Sterling, 

East  Haven, 

Naugatuck, 

Stonington, 

Easton, 

New  Britain, 

Stratford, 

East  Windsor, 

New  Hartford, 

Torrington, 

Enfield, 

New  Haven, 

Trumbnll, 

Fairfield, 

New  London, 

Vernon, 

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Wallingford, 
Waterbury, 
Waterford, 
Westbrook, 
Westport, 

Weston, 
Wethersfield, 
Wilton, 
Winchester, 

Windsor, 
Wolcott, 
Woodbridge, 
Woodbury. 

A  few  facts  relative  to  the  composition  of  each  of  the 
ten  companies1  in  the  regiment,  in  1861,  are  here  pre- 
sented : 

Company  A,  Capt.  John  Duffy,  was  composed  princi- 
pally of  New  Haven  men,  but  Danbury,  Derby,  Hartford, 
Enfield,  Branford  and  Waterbury  were  also  represented. 
Later  during  the  war.  other  Connecticut  places  had  rep- 
resentatives in  the  company. 

Company  B,  Capt.  Patrick  Garvey,  had  a  large  num- 
ber of  Meriden  and  New  Haven  men  in  1861.  Other 
places  represented  in  the  company,  at  this  time,  were 
Middletown,  Windsor,  Cheshire,  Waterbury,  Wood- 
bridge,  Hamden,  Farmington,  Portland,  Norfolk,  New 
Britain,  Wallingford  and  Southington. 

Company  C,  Capt.  Michael  McCarten,  was  chiefly 
made  up  of  New  Haven  men,  though  Bridgeport,  Hart- 
ford, Norwich,  Waterbury  and  New  London  were  also 
represented. 

Company  D,  Capt.  Thomas  C.  Coates,  was  composed 
principally  of  Bridgeport  men.  Other  localities  repre- 
sented in  the  company,  at  the  outset,  were  New  Haven, 
Plymouth,  Norwalk,  Fairfield  and  Meriden. 

Company  E,  Capt.  James  P.  Hennessey.  This  was 
another  New  Haven  company,  with  a  sprinkling  of  mem- 
bers from  Derby,  Hartford,  New  Britain,  Middletown, 
Hamden  and  elsewhere. 

Company  F,  Capt.  John  Foley,  had  about  48  Water- 
bury  men,  in  1861,  including  the  brothers,  Michael  P. 
and  John  P.  Coen,  both  of  whom  were  corporals.  Later, 
other  Waterbury  men  were  in  the  company.  Other 

1  As  the  war  progressed,  there  were,  of  course,  many  changes  among  officers  and 
men  of  the  companies.  A  roll  of  the  regiment  will  be  found  toward  the  close  of  this 
volume. 


42      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

places   represented   in  it,  in   1861,   included   Bridgeport, 
Hartford,  New  Haven,  Plymouth  and  Norwich. 

Company  G,  Capt.  William  Wright,  had  between  30 
and  40  Hartford  men  in  its  ranks  at  this  time,  and  also 
men  from  New  Haven,  Bridgeport,  Stonington,  Wethers- 
field,  Manchester,  Portland,  New  Britain,  Simsbury, 
Southington  and  East  Windsor. 

Company  H,  Capt.  Silas  W.  Sawyer,  included  about 
30  Norwich  men,  in  1861,  besides  members  from  Bridge- 
port, Griswold,  New  Haven,  Portland,  Groton,  New 
London  and  Danbury.  There  were  more  Norwich  men 
in  the  company  later. 

Company  I,  Capt.  Elliot  M.  Curtis,  had  at  this  time 
about  28  men  from  Bridgeport,  the  rest  of  the  company 
including  Stratford,  Hartford,  Plymouth,  Monroe,  Bris- 
tol, Wolcott,  Berlin,  Canaan,  North  Canaan,  Bloomfield, 
Burlington,  Norfolk,  Salisbury,  Westport,  Newtown, 
Derby,  Lyme,  Woodbury,  Seymour,  Huntington,  Plain- 
field  and  New  Hartford  men. 

Company  K,  Capt.  John  A.  Nelson,  was  made  up  from 
Hartford,  Bridgeport,  New  Haven,  Derby,  Griswold, 
Bethel,  Easton,  Winchester,  Simsbury,  Fairfield,  New- 
town  and  Danbury. 

The  Ninth  was  a  three-years  regiment.  New  Haven, 
furnished  nearly  400  men  to  the  command  during  the 
latter's  period  of  service,  and  thus  easily  lead  in  numbers. 
The  four  other  Connecticut  places  most  largely  repre- 
sented were  Bridgeport,  Waterbury,  Hartford  and  Nor- 
wich. The  youngest  member  of  the  Ninth,  in  1861,  was 
Richard  Hennessey,  a  drummer  boy,  who  was  not  yet 
12  years  of  age,  of  Company  E.  He  was  a  son  of  Capt. 
Hennessey  of  that  company.  Thomas  Delaney,  a  drum- 
mer boy  of  Company  F,  Waterbury,  is  mentioned  as  15 
years  of  age.  His  father,  Patrick  Delaney,  was  a  private 
in  the  company.  James  Warren,  a  musician  of  Company 
K,  is  also  mentioned  as  aged  15  years.  There  were  sev- 
eral in  the  regiment,  in  1861,  aged,  respectively,  16,  17, 
18,  19,  and  so  on,  up  to  45. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  43 

Major-General  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  of  Lowell,  Mass., 
was  organizing  a  New  England  Division  for  the  expedi- 
tion against  New  Orleans.  He  came  to  Connecticut  and 
had  an  interview  with  Governor  Buckingham.  The  Gov- 
ernor suggested  that  he  take  the  Ninth  into  his  com- 
mand. Butler  was  pleased  with  the  idea,  and  immediately 
accepted  the  offer.  The  necessary  papers  were  soon 
made  out  by  the  Governor,  and  in  a  short  time  the  Ninth 
received  orders  to  proceed  to  Gen.  Butler's  rendezvous, 
Camp  Chase,  Lowell. 

An  especially  notable  event  took  place  at  Camp  Welch, 
Oct.  30,  1861,  the  occasion  being  the  presentation  of 
colors  to  the  regiment.  The  New  Haven  Palladium,  in 
its  issue  of  that  date,  had  the  following  report  of  the  cere- 
monies : 

"This  forenoon  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Regiment  was 
presented  with  a  brace  of  colors  with  appropriate  cere- 
monies. One  of  them,  the  flag  of  the  Union,  was  the 
gift  of  Mrs.  Charles  DeForest,  and  the  other,  the  flag  of 
the  State,  was  the  gift  of  a  number  of  patriotic  ladies. 
These  flags  were  both  of  silk,  and  were  exceedingly 
beautiful.  The  trimmings  were  of  the  richest  and  most 
costly  description. 

"Soon  after  10  o'clock  the  regiment,  which  is  com- 
posed chiefly  of  Irish  adopted  citizens,  was  drawn  up  in 
a  three-quarter  square,  when  the  ladies,  accompanied  by 
E.  K.  Foster,  Esq.,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Harwood,  and  others, 
approached  the  lines,  bearing  the  splendid  colors  of  the 
State  and  the  Nation.  The  Colonel  and  staff  met  the 
guests  in  advance  of  the  lines,  when  Judge  Foster  ad- 
dressed the  regiment  in  one  of  his  usually  happy  efforts. 
He  adverted  to  the  great  cause  of  Constitutional  liberty 
which  they  were  going  forth  to  defend.  He  expressed  an 
abiding  confidence  in  their  valor,  and  their  determina- 
tion to  stand  by  their  colors  and  the  cause  they  repre- 
sented while  they  were  able  to  lift  a  hand  in  their  defence. 

"Major  Fry  [e]  then  stepped  forward  and  received  the 


44     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

colors  from  the  hands  of  the  ladies,  and  responded  in  an 
elegant  speech,  pledging  himself  and  the  regiment  to  be 
true  to  the  honor  of  the  State  and  the  welfare  of  the 
Nation.  He  regarded  the  gift  as  a  sacred  trust,  which 
would,  under  all  circumstances,  be  sacredly  defended. 
He  trusted  that  on  the  return  of  the  regiment  these 
colors  would  be  brought  back  with  it,  and  if  soiled,  it 
would  only  be  by  the  dust  and  smoke  of  battle,  but  in 
other  respects  they  would  be  more  glorious  than  now, 
new  and  gorgeous  as  they  have  been  made  by  the  fair 
hands  which  presented  them. 

"This  ceremony  being  over,  another  presentation  fol- 
lowed, that  of  an  elegant  regulation  sword  to  Capt.  Hen- 
nessey, of  Company  E,  of  the  same  regiment.  Col.  L. 
W.  Sperry  and  James  Thompson  were  neighbors  of 
Capt.  Hennessey,  and  were  forward  in  this  movement  of 
giving  a  testimonial  to  his  character  and  worth. 

"By  request,  J.  F.  Babcock  addressed  the  Captain  and 
his  company,  in  relation  to  the  contest  in  which  they  were 
about  to  engage,  and  the  vast  interests  they  were  called 
upon  to  defend.  He  adverted  to  the  origin  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution,  and  the  aid  our  fathers  received  from 
true  hearts  of  other  lands ;  and  expressed  his  confidence 
that  the  Ninth  Connecticut  would  see  that  the  banner  of 
the  State,  the  banner  of  the  Union,  and  their  own  green 
flag  of  Erin,  were  not  disgraced  when  the  bugle  sounded 
to  the  charge  upon  the  enemy  of  us  all.  He  introduced 
Col.  Sperry,  who*  presented  the  sword,  expressing  the 
highest  confidence  in  the  gallant  recipient  whom  he 
esteemed  as  a  neighbor,  respected  as  a  citizen,  and  had 
faith  to  believe  would  prove  a  soldier  worthy  of  his  coun- 
trymen, who  had  already  so  distinguished  themselves  in 
the  first  struggle  for  liberty,  and  in  the  recent  efforts  of 
our  troops  to  preserve  it  from  destruction  by  traitor 
hands. 

"Mr.  Thompson  then  presented  the  sash  and  belt,  all 
of  which  the  gallant  captain  modestly  received,  declaring 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  45 

that  it  would  be  his  constant  effort  to  preserve  these  gifts 
from  dishonor.  He  felt  the  responsibility  laid  upon  him, 
and  he  believed  it  would  appear,  when  the  struggle  was 
over,  that  he  and  his  men  had  done  something  in  honor 
of  the  land  of  their  birth,  and  the  land  of  their  adoption. 
The  exercises  were  closed  with  three  hearty  cheers  for 
Messrs.  Sperry,  Thompson  and  Babcock,  for  Capt.  Hen- 
nessey and  the  cause  to  which  all  patriotic  hearts  were 
devoted." 

The  State  flag  mentioned  here  was  especially  de- 
signed for  the  Ninth.  The  field  was  of  dark  blue.  On 
one  side  of  the  flag,  in  the  center  of  the  blue  field,  was 
the  State  seal,  having  the  National  seal  as  a  background. 
On  the  other  side  appeared  an  Irish  emblem  or  seal, 
comprising  a  green  ground  with  a  harp  of  gold.  A  spray 
of  shamrock  was  entwined,  and  underneath  was  the  in- 
scription "Erin  Go  Bragh."  This  Irish  emblem  was,  like 
the  State  seal,  backed  by  the  National  one,  and  was  in  the 
center  of  the  blue  field  on  this  side  of  the  flag.  This  flag, 
with  the  others  belonging  to  the  regiment,  is  now  treas- 
ured among  the  other  battle  standards,  at  the  State 
Capitol,  in  Hartford. 

On  the  last  Saturday  night  of  the  regiment's  stay  in 
Camp  Welch,  New  Haven,  a  great  storm  visited  the 
scene.  It  was  a  perfect  hurricane.  Tents  were  blown 
down,  trees  uprooted,  vessels  in  the  harbor  driven  ashore 
and  other  damage  inflicted.  When  the  next  morning 
dawned,  a  spectacle  of  devastation  appeared  on  all  sides. 
Matters  were  righted  as  speedily  as  possible,  however, 
and  during  the  day — Sunday — thousands  of  people 
visited  the  camp  to  bid  the  Ninth  farewell.  An  interest- 
ing feature  of  the  afternoon  was  the  presentation  of  an 
Irish  pike  to  the  regiment.  This  pike,  handsomely  made, 
was  manufactured  by  John  Egan,  and  was  spoken  of  by 
the  New  Haven  Register  as  "The  Egan  Axe."  The  event 
took  place  at  dress  parade,  about  4  p.  m.,  and  was  wit- 
nessed by  a  great  crowd.  The  presentation  speech  was 


46     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

delivered  by  James  Gallagher,  of  New  Haven,  he  having 
been  deputed  for  that  purpose  by  Mr.  Egan.  Mr.  Gal- 
lagher in  his  speech  referred  to  the  pike  as  "an  emblem 
of  the  warlike  days  of  your  ancestors.  In  their  hands  it 
was  a  formidable  weapon.*'  Mr.  Egan  desired,  he  said, 
that  it  should  be  carried  at  the  head  of  the  regiment.  A 
felicitous  response  was  made.  While  at  Camp  Welch,  a 
society  of  patriotic  ladies  presented  each  man  of  the  regi- 
ment a  useful  little  outfit  consisting  of  needles,  thread, 
pins,  buttons,  etc.  The  gift  was  much  appreciated. 


MAJOR  FREDERICK   FRYE. 


CHAPTER  III. 

THE    REGIMENT    LEAVES    NEW    HAVEN    FOR    CAMP    CHASE, 

LOWELL,  MASS. CHEERS  AND  FAREWELLS  MARK  THE 

DEPARTURE THE  ARRIVAL  AT  LOWELL THE  NINTH 

ESCORTED  INTO  CAMP  BY  THE  TWENTY-SIXTH  MASSA- 
CHUSETTS  SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  NOTE  IN  CAMP 

CHASE BILL     ALLEN      AND      HIS      BULLDOG    CREATE 

AMUSEMENT "CONNECTICUT    OVER   THE    FENCE." 

THE  NINTH,  about  845  strong,1  left  New  Haven  for 
Camp  Chase,  Lowell,  Mass.,  on  Monday,  Nov. 
4,  1861.  A  few  days  previously  the  men  had  been 
paid  and  given  a  brief  leave  of  absence  to  visit  their 
homes.  This  privilege  was  not  abused,  for  when  the  roll 
was  called,  on  the  day  of  departure,  every  man  had  re- 
ported, and  was  in  his  place. 

The  regiment  presented  a  sturdy  appearance  as  it 
moved  out  of  Camp  Welch,  with  band  playing  and  colors 
flying,  and  was  the  recipient  of  much  applause.  The 
command  had  not  received  as  much  care  and  attention 
from  the  authorities  as  had  been  bestowed  upon  other 
regiments.  It  was  not  equipped,  feasted  and  favored  as 
some  of  the  other  regiments  had  been.  Its  uniforms,  in 
some  instances,  showed  the  signs  of  wear  and  a  suffi- 
ciency of  other  articles  of  apparel,  that  should  have  been 
supplied  by  the  State  or  the  National  government,  was 
in  many  cases  wanting.  Nevertheless,  the  Irish  buoyancy 
of  the  regiment  rose  superior  to  these  drawbacks.  Offi- 
cers and  men  were  no  mere  holiday  soldiers,  but  were  of 
the  kind  that  would  charge  the  foe  as  impetuously  and 
fight  him  as  valiantly,  even  without  uniforms,  as  would 
the  most  handsomely  uniformed  regiment  in  the  service. 

JAt  one  period  in  the  South,  it  numbered   fully  900  men.    Many  accessions  were 
received  at  New   Orleans. 


48     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

A  special  train  had  been  made  up  and  was  awaiting  the 
Ninth  at  the  intersection  of  Lamberton  street  and  the 
New  York  &  New  Haven  railroad.  All  New  Haven 
was  astir  with  enthusiasm,  and  a  great  multitude  assem- 
bled at  the  point  of  embarkation  to  witness  the  regiment's 
departure.  The  fine  band  of  the  Ninth  poured  forth  a 
flood  of  martial  melody,  interspersing  American  with 
Irish  airs,  the  populace  cheered  and  cheered  again,  hands 
were  clasped  through  car  windows  and  from  platforms 
in  last  farewells  and,  amid  a  great  wave  of  enthusiasm, 
the  long  train  moved  off. 

As  it  proceeded  the  light-hearted  men  of  the  regiment 
indulged  in  song  and  jollity.  War  choruses  were  ren- 
dered with  a  will,  jokes  were  cracked  and  general  good 
humor  prevailed.  Now  and  then  a  friendly  wrestling 
bout  would  occupy  attention.  Take  a  train  with  over 
800  healthy  young  men  aboard  and  a  good  deal  of  noise 
will  be  made  and  some  paint  scratched,  even  in  sport.  So 
it  was  in  this  case,  and  the  occasion  was  seized  upon  by 
idle  gossips  to  malign  the  regiment.  For  the  Ninth  had 
opponents  even  at  home.  These  were  the  "Peace-at-any- 
Price"  men,  vituperative  Copperheads,  selfish  money- 
getters  who  would  let  the  Union  perish  rather  than  raise 
a  hand  in  its  defence.  Yet,  here  was  a  regiment  enlisted 
for  three-years'  service,  volunteers  who  were  going  to  the 
front  to  uphold  the  Flag  and,  if  need  be,  lay  down  their 
lives  that  the  Nation  might  live.  How  despicable  the 
adverse  criticism  heaped  upon  them  by  cowardly  or 
thoughtless  stay-at-homes ! 

The  wildest  and  most  ridiculous  yarns  were  circulated 
about  the  command  at  this  stage.  These  stories  reached 
Lowell,  whither  the  regiment  was  bound,  and  nearly 
created  a  panic  in  that  locality.  It  was  considered  wise 
by  hysterical  citizens  to  raise  a  force  of  500  special  police 
to  save  the  place  from  being  destroyed  and  plowed  over, 
but  Gen.  Butler  promptly  stamped  out  the  undertaking, 
and  that  was  the  end  of  it.  Later,  after  the  Ninth  had 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  49 

been  domiciled  at  Camp  Chase,  the  people  of  Lowell 
laughed  at  the  fears  they  had  entertained. 

Governor  Buckingham,  of  Connecticut,  in  a  letter  to 
Col.  Cahill,  under  date  of  February  8,  1862,  alluding  to 
these  stories  reflecting  on  the  regiment,  says :  "I  may, 
however,  add  that  the  whole  State  knows  that  the  re- 
ports respecting  your  men  when  they  left  were  so  mis- 
represented as  to*  be  actually  untrue." 

The  regiment  reached  Lowell  that  evening  and  spent 
the  night  aboard  the  train  on  the  outskirts  of  the  city. 
The  next  forenoon  the  command  was  escorted  into  Camp 
Chase  by  the  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts,  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  latter  being  composed  of  citizens  of  Irish  birth 
or  parentage.  Camp  Chase,  as  already  stated,  was  the 
rendezvous  for  Gen.  Butler's  force,  at  the  time.  Among 
the  organizations  there  when  the  Ninth  arrived  was  the 
Fourth  Massachusetts  Light  Battery,  Capt.  Charles  H. 
Manning,  in  which  organization  were  many  Irish.  John 
F.  Hurley,  who  40  years  after  was  elected  mayor  of 
Salem,  Mass.,  was  a  member  of  this  battery,  and  among 
other  names  on  the  roll  were  Barry,  Burns,  Carney, 
Curley,  Doherty,  Dolan,  Donahue,  Foley,  Gallagher, 
Grady,  Griffin.,  Hart,  Kiernan,  Kilbride,  Mahoney,  Mc- 
Carthy, McDonough,  McElroy,  Murphy,  Nagle,  Sulli- 
van and  the  like.  Corporal  William  M.  Peabody,  of  the 
battery,  kept  a  diary  during  the  war.  In  that  diary, 
speaking  of  the  arrival  of  the  Ninth,  in  Camp  Chase,  he 
says : 

"Nov.  5.  Tuesday.  Morning  dawned  clear  and  cold. 
All  traces  of  yesterday's  storm  have  disappeared,  and  the 
usual  routine  of  duty  has  been  resumed.  Company 
drilled  this  a.  m.,  in  marching.  At  noon  the  Ninth  Con- 
necticut Infantry,  under  command  of  Colonel  Thomas 
W.  Cahill,  arrived  here  *  *  *  and  was  received  by 
the  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts  Infantry,,  who  escorted 
them  into  camp.  As  the  Nutmeggers  marched  in  we  had 


5o     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

a  fine  view  of  them,  and  saw  that  this  Irish  regiment  was 
made  up  of  very  hardy  material.  The  regiment,  about 
900  strong,  pitched  camp  on  the  parade  ground  between 
the  headquarters  building  and  the  camp  of  the  Twenty- 
sixth  Massachusetts  regiment,  and  were  soon  at  home  in 
their  new  quarters.  This  re-enforcement  increases  the 
number  of  troops  here  to  about  2,400  men,  and  brings 
us  all  into  pretty  close  quarters." 

The  great  storm  that  visited  New  Haven  the  last  Sat- 
urday evening,  Nov.  2,  before  the  Ninth  left  Camp 
Welch,  was  also  in  evidence  at  Lowell.  At  Camp  Chase, 
so  heavy  was  the  rainfall  that  ditches  had  to  be  dug 
around  tents,  and  the  ropes  of  the  latter  tightened  to 
resist  the  hurricane.  The  storm  was  still  in  force  at 
midnight,  and  many  of  the  men  were  awake  because  of 
it.  It  was  only  by  constant  watching  and  prompt  action 
that  tents  were  kept  standing  in  the  camp  of  the  Fourth 
Massachusetts  battery.  The  camp  of  the  Twenty-sixth 
Massachusetts  regiment,  however,  did  not  fare  so  well, 
a  large  number  of  the  regiment's  tents  being  blown 
down.  Whole  companies  were  left  without  shelter,  and  a 
thorough  drenching  was  inflicted  on  their  property.  The 
Eastern  Bay  State  regiment,  in  camp,  also*  suffered 
severely  in  like  manner.  The  parade  ground  was  turned 
into  a  lake.  By  the  time  the  Ninth  reached  Lowell, 
however,  the  camp  was  again  in  good  condition. 

Camp  Chase  occupied  what  was  known  as  the  Lowell 
Fair  Grounds.  It  was  named  in  honor  of  the  Hon.  Salmon 
P.  Chase,  Secretary  of  the  United  States  Treasury,  in  the 
cabinet  of  President  Lincoln.  The  camp  comprised  a 
large  number  of  acres,  the  land  being  hard  and  level. 
Part  of  the  site  had  been  used  as  a  race  course,  and  was 
still  in  that  condition.  The  entrance  to  the  course  was 
located  at  the  northwest  corner,  and  here  were  large 
gates  opening  out  to  the  Billerica  road.  Nearby  was  the 
guard  house.  The  Fair  building  was  still  standing.  It 
was  now  devoted  to  the  following  uses:  the  first  floor 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865,  5I 

was  utilized  as  dining  quarters  for  the  troops ;  the  second, 
as  offices  for  the  Commandant  of  the  post,  for  the 
Surgeon  and  for  quartermaster  and  commissary  stores. 
The  cooking  for  the  soldiers  was  done  in  a  long,  low 
one-story  building  constructed  of  rough  boards. 

Like  most  other  regiments,  the  Ninth  had  a  pet  or  two, 
so  that  when  big  Bill  Allen  marched  into  Camp  Chase 
with  the  regiment  that  day,  leading  a  bulldog  by  a  string, 
and  carrying  a  cat  under  his  arm,  a  roar  of  merriment 
greeted  the  appearance  of  the  Connecticut  warrior. 
Camp  Chase  was  surrounded  by  a  high  board  fence.  At 
intervals,  when  off  duty,  a  few  men  of  the  Ninth,  in 
search  of  relaxation  and  change  of  scene,  would  scale 
this  fence  and  drop  down  on  the  other  side.  From  this 
arose  the  phrase  "Connecticut  over  the  fence."  Men 
from  other  commands  in  camp  would  also>  scale  the  fence, 
but  no  matter  to  what  organization  they  belonged,  the 
phrase  was  always  "Connecticut  over  the  fence."  So 
that  members  of  the  Ninth  were  often  blamed  for  the 
doings  of  men  from  other  organizations  on  the  field. 

Once  a  man  getting  over  the  fence,  was  lightly  prod- 
ded by  a  bayonet  in  the  hands  of  a  sentry.  The  humor 
of  this,  and  the  literal  execution  of  orders,  so  pleased 
Gen.  Butler  that  he  made  the  sentry  a  sergeant. 

While  at  Lowell,  the  Ninth  received  many  visitors 
from  home,  this  pleasantly  serving  to  relieve  the  monot- 
ony of  camp  life.  Gen.  Butler  early  formed  a  liking 
for  the  regiment,  and  did  everything  that  was  then  pos- 
sible for  its  comfort  and  welfare.  On  Nov.  10,  an  in- 
spection of  all  the  troops  in  camp,  including  the  Ninth, 
took  place,  conducted  by  Gen.  Butler. 

Butler  visited  the  camp  again  on  Nov.  12,  this  being 
the  third  day  in  succession  he  had  done  so.  This  circum- 
stance, together  with  the  fact  that  extensive  supplies  of 
clothing  had  lately  been  received,  gave  rise  to  the  belief 
that  a  movement  of  some  kind  was  soon  to  take  place. 
On  Nov.  15,  the  Fourth  Massachusetts  battery  was  mus- 


52      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

tered  into  the  United  States  service,  the  oath  being 
administered  by  Col.  E.  F.  Jones,  of  the  Twenty-sixth 
Massachusetts.  The  men  of  the  battery  raised  their 
right  hands,  "each  man  repeating  the  oath  after  the 
Colonel." 

During  the  Ninth's  stay  at  Lowell,,  the  officers  and 
men  wrote  many  letters  to  loved  ones  at  home.  Some  of 
these  letters  have  been  shown  us,  having  been  sacredly 
treasured  these  forty  years.  They  all  breathe  a  spirit  of 
Christianity  and  patriotism.  Poor  Corporal  John  P. 
Coen,  of  Waterbury,  who  was  accidentally  killed  in 
Louisiana!  We  have  several  of  his  letters  before  us  as 
we  write;  letters  to  his  father,  mother,  wife  and  sisters; 
letters  sometimes  signed  jointly  by  himself  and  his 
brother,  Corporal  Michael  P.  Coen,  expressing  affection 
for  their  kin  and  kindliest  good  will  for  neighbors  and 
associates  in  Waterbury.  May  these  letters  be  treasured 
a  century  to  come  for  the  noble  lessons  they  teach ! 

On  Nov.  18,  Col.  Cahill  issued  the  following: 


HEADQUARTERS,  NINTH  REG'T,  C.  V., 

CAMP  CHASE, 

LOWELL,  MASS.,  Nov.  18,  1861. 
REGIMENTAL  ORDER 

No.  4- 

In  accordance  with  Special  Orders  now  received  from 
Headquarters,  Department  of  New  England,  each  com- 
pany commander  will  hold  his  command  in  readiness  to 
march  from  Camp  Chase  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.,  Tuesday, 
November  19,  1861,  to  take  the  cars  at  the  Depot,  near 
said  Camp,  and  on  arrival  in  Boston  every  commissioned 
officer  will  see  that  no  enlisted  man  leaves  the  ranks  on 
any  pretext  whatever. 

No  officer  or  man  will  be  allowed  to  leave  the  ship 
''Constitution"  after  embarkation  therein  without  a 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  53 

written  order  from  the  commander  of  the  forces  em- 
barked. 

The  severest  punishment  will  follow  the  infraction  of 
this  order.  per  order 

THOS.  W.  CAHILL, 

Col.  Ninth  Reg't,  C.  V. 
A.  GORDON  HALL, 

Adjutant. 


On  Nov.  19,  Corporal  Peabody,  of  the  Fourth  Massa- 
chusetts Light  Battery,  wrote  in  his  diary : 

"Company  placed  under  marching  orders  to-day. 
About  9  a.  m.,  the  26th  Mass,  and  9th  Connecticut  regi- 
ments broke  up  camp  and  in  heavy  marching  order 
moved  out  to  the  railroad  track.  There,  a  long  train  of 
cars  awaited  them,  and  embarking,  they  proceeded  for 
Boston,  leaving  their  tents  standing  for  the  use  of  other 
troops  to  assemble  here." 

The  next  day,  Nov.  20,  the  battery  just  mentioned 
also  proceeded  to  Boston  and  joined  the  Twenty-sixth 
Massachusetts  and  Ninth  Connecticut  regiments  aboard 
the  Constitution.  The  troops  remaining  in  Camp  Chase, 
were  the  Eastern  Bay  State  regiment  and  three 
companies  of  Rifle  Rangers,  the  whole  force  numbering 
about  500  men.  The  Constitution  lay  at  Long  Wharf, 
Boston.  She  was  a  new  steamship  of  3,000  tons  burthen 
and  belonged  to  the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Co.  She 
had  been  constructed  for  the  carrying  trade  between 
Panama  and  San  Francisco,  and  was  in  excellent  condi- 
tion for  the  business  of  a  military  transport.  For  this 
purpose,  double-berth  bunks  had  been  constructed  on 
each  side  and,  lengthwise,  through  the  centre.  These 
bunks  were  located  on  the  middle  and  third  decks.  The 
two  regiments  and  the  battery  aboard  comprised  a  total 
force  of  1,946,  all  commanded  by  Col.  E.  F.  Jones,  of  the 
Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts.  This  was  the  Col.  Jones 


54      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

who  had  commanded  the  Sixth  Massachusetts,  on  its 
passage  through  Baltimore,  in  April,  when  attacked  by 
a  mob.  He  was  a  brave  officer. 

The  commander  of  the  ship  itself  was  Capt.  Fuller,  a 
veteran  of  the  wave,  and  some  50  years  of  age.  It  was 
stated  that  the  government  was  paying  $2,000  per  day 
for  the  use  of  the  Constitution.  Strict  discipline  was 
maintained  by  Col.  Jones  before  sailing.  Guards  were 
placed  at  the  gangway  of  the  ship,  and  up  the  wharf. 
No  visitors  were  allowed  aboard  and  no  passes  were 
issued  to  the  soldiers.  Meanwhile,  supplies  were  being 
rapidly  taken  aboard,  and  every  effort  was  being  made 
to  sail  as  quickly  as  possible.  Among  other  goods  aboard 
was  a  supply  of  Enfield  rifles  for  the  Ninth,  which,  how- 
ever, were  not  then  distributed.  The  men  from  Connec- 
ticut and  Massachusetts  passed  the  time  in  various  ways 
and  eagerly  awaited  the  hour  for  departure.  During  the 
afternoon  of  Nov.  20,  a  large  barque  displaying  French 
colors  arrived  in  port  and  caused  much  interest  among 
the  spectators  on  the  Constitution.  The  officers  and  men 
of  the  Ninth  were  in  excellent  health  and  spirits  and 
eager  to  get  to  the  front  to  participate  in  active  opera- 
tions against  the  foe. 

Nov.  21  dawned  cold,  but  pleasant.  Up  to  this  time, 
very  few  on  the  Constitution  knew  the  destination  of  the 
ship,  and  there  was  considerable  speculation  as  to  where 
the  force  would  land.  The  stevedores  finished  their 
work  of  loading  the  ship  about  1 1  a.  m.,  and  Capt.  Fuller 
began  issuing  his  orders  for  the  start.  The  lines 
were  cast  off  at  11.30,  and  the  Constitution  began  her 
voyage  seaward. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

THE    BAND     OF    THE    NINTH     ENLIVENS    THE    TRIP    DOWN 

BOSTON   HARBOR THE   JOURNEY   TO   PORTLAND,    ME. 

THE    TWELFTH    MAINE    INFANTRY    EXPECTS    TO    BE 

TAKEN     ABOARD,     BUT     IS     SENT     BACK TRIP     FROM 

PORTLAND      TO      FORTRESS      MONROE— GEN.      PHELPS 
COMES   ABOARD   THE   "CONSTITUTION"   AND   ASSUMES 

COMMAND    OF    THE    TROOPS THE    VOYAGE    TO    SHIP 

ISLAND,  MISS. 

AS  the  Constitution  left  the  wharf,  she  was  given 
hearty  cheers  by  the  large  crowd  that  had  assem- 
bled to  see  her  off.  The  deck  was  a  mass  of  soldiers  who 
waved  farewells  to  the  people  on  shore.  The  band  of  the 
Ninth  struck  up  a  lively  air  and  continued  to  play  until 
well  down  Boston  harbor.  The  Constitution  at  first 
picked  her  way  cautiously  owing  to  the  shipping  in  the 
harbor,  but  when  clear  of  this,  more  steam  was  put  on 
and  the  ship  increased  her  speed. 

Samuel  Colby,  a  veteran  Boston  pilot,  was  aboard,  and 
safely  guided  the  Constitution  down  toward  the  bay.  Fort 
Independence,  on  the  starboard,  was  passed  and  Fort 
Winthrop,  to  larboard.  Lower  down,  Fort  Warren  was 
sighted.  All  this  time,  the  band  of  the  Ninth  kept  play- 
ing, "to  the  great  delight  of  the  boys."  By  I  p.  m.  the 
ship  was  pretty  well  outside,  and  the  effect  of  the  waves 
began  to  make  itself  felt  on  board.  Many  of  the  men 
showed  indications  of  seasickness  and  clung  to  the  rail 
or  sought  their  berths  below  deck.  The  Constitution 
once  clear  of  the  lower  harbor,  shaped  her  course  north- 
erly for  Portland,  Me.,  the  object  being  to  take  on  a 
Maine  regiment  at  that  place. 

The  ship  was  now  making  about  nine  miles  an  hour. 
At  4  p.  m.  she  was  running  up  the  coast,  through  a  rough 


5 6     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

sea.  Only  about  a  third  of  the  force  aboard  remained 
on  deck,  the  rest  having  gone  below.  The  weather  was 
cold,  and  those  on  deck  were  as  well  muffled  up  as  cir- 
cumstances would  permit.  At  sunset,  the  Constitution 
was  off  Thatcher's  Island  and  about  five  miles  from  that 
point.  By  this  time,  many  of  those  on  deck  were  shel- 
tered in  nooks  around  the  smokestack,  and  elsewhere,  to 
avoid  the  biting  winds.  Night  came  down  cold,  but  clear. 
About  9  p.  m.  the  ship  was  off  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and 
at  midnight  reached  Portland,  Me. 

The  next  morning,  Nov.  22,  1861,  was  cold.  The  Con- 
stitution was  anchored  about  a  mile  from  the  wharves, 
and  from  her  deck  a  good  view  of  Portland  could  be  ob- 
tained, and  was  much  enjoyed  by  the  men  of  the  Ninth. 
About  9  a.  m.  the  steamer  Forest  City,  with  the  Twelfth 
Maine  Infantry  aboard,  came  out  to  the  Constitution. 
Col.  George  F.  Shepley  was  in  command  of  the  regiment, 
and  the  intention  was  to  transfer  it  from  the  Forest  City 
to  the  Constitution  for  transportation  south  with  the  Con- 
necticut and  Massachusetts  troops.  Owing  to  the  crowd 
already  on  the  Constitution,  however,  Col.  Jones  finally 
decided  not  to  take  the  Twelfth  aboard,  and  ordered  the 
regiment  to  return  to  Portland,  proceed  to  Camp 
Chase,  Lowell,  and  there  report  to  Gen.  Butler.  Pay- 
master Roland  G.  Usher,  U.  S.  Volunteers,  left  Portland 
in  a  rowboat  about  noon,  came  aboard  the  Constitution 
and  soon  began  distributing  one  month's  pay  to  the 
Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts  regiment  and  the  Fourth 
Massachusetts  Light  Battery.  The  next  forenoon,  Nov. 
23,  some  200  tons  of  coal  were  taken  aboard;  also  two 
pilots — Sewall  Drinkwater  and  David  Jackson.  There 
were  now  four  pilots  on  the  Constitution — Samuel  Colby, 
of  Boston ;  Richard  H.  Collins,  of  New  York,  and 
Messrs.  Drinkwater  and  Jackson,  just  mentioned. 

Sunday,  Nov.  24,  the  ship  was  well  out,  and  making 
good  progress  on  a  southerly  course.  There  was  a 
heavy  sea  running  and  many  of  the  officers  and  men 


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were  disagreeably  aware  of  that  fact.  The  Constitution 
made  her  fastest  time  at  night  when  the  soldiers  were 
asleep  and  all  was  quiet  aboard.  Corporal  Peabody  of 
the  Fourth  Massachusetts  Light  Battery,  to  whose  diary 
we  are  much  indebted,  makes  the  following  entry : 

"Nov.  26,  Tuesday.  Morning  opened  warmer  and  clear. 
Many  on  board  think  that  we  are  now  off  the  coast  of 
Virginia,  and  this  belief  has  given  the  sick  new  life  and 
energy ;  for  this  morning  the  deck  is  crowded  with  men, 
all  of  them  being  cheerful  and  happy.  Since  midnight 
the  course  of  our  ship  has  been  almost  due  west,  which 
causes  the  belief  that  Capt.  Fuller  intends  to  make  port. 
All  hands  are  on  the  lookout  for  land,  and  all  are  re- 
warded for  their  trouble,  for  about  9  a.  m.,  a  small  speck 
is  seen  far  away  to  the  South  which,  growing  larger  as 
the  Constitution  rapidly  approaches,  reveals  to  view  the 
sandy  beach  and  tall  trees  on  Cape  Henry.  Every  man 
able  to  crawl  was  at  this  time  on  deck  viewing  with  the 
intensest  interest  the  scenery  around  us.  At  10  a.  m.,  we 
passed  inside  Capes  Henry  and  Charles,  and  were  in 
Hampton  Roads." 

Fortress  Monroe  is  located  about  seven  miles  up  the 
Roads.  The  Constitution  steamed  slowly  and  at  about  1 1 
a.  m.,  dropped  anchor  within  a  mile  of  the  fort.  It  now 
became  reported  among  the  Ninth  that  the  object  of  the 
ship  in  coming  here  was  to  take  aboard  Gen.  John  W. 
Phelps,  who  was  to  assume  command  of  the  expedition. 
The  location  of  Fortress  Monroe,  at  the  extreme  end  of 
Old  Point  Comfort,  Va.,  made  it  a  place  of  great  strategic 
importance,  and  the  works  were,  consequently,  of  tre- 
mendous strength.  At  this  period  they  covered  about  60 
acres  and  constituted  the  strongest  regular  fortification 
in  the  United  States.  During  the  forenoon  of  Nov.  27, 
the  Constitution  was  busy  taking  on  supplies,  and  it  now 
became  generally  known,  to  those  aboard  ship,  that  the 
destination  of  the  latter  was  Ship  Island,  Gulf  of  Mexico. 

General  Phelps  came  on  board  about  i  p.  m.,  and  as- 


5 8     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

sumed  command.  He  was  a  native  of  Vermont,  born 
Nov.  13,  1813.  He  was  a  tall  man,  and  of  medium,  but 
strong,  build.  His  hair  and  beard  were  of  an  iron  gray 
and  his  address  very  pleasing.  He  graduated  from  West 
Point  in  1836,  served  in  the  Fourth  U.  S.  Artillery  in  the 
operations  against  the  Creek  Indians,  distinguished  him- 
self in  the  Florida  war  and  in  the  war  with  Mexico,  in 
which  latter  conflict  he  served  under  Gen.  Scott,  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  capture  of  the  City  of  Mexico.  On  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  he  was  made  Colonel  of 
the  First  Vermont  Infantry,  and  on  May  17,  1861,  be- 
came a  brigadier-general  of  volunteers.  He  permitted 
no  mere  show  or  parade  upon  taking  command  on  the 
Constitution,  and  created  a  very  favorable  impression.  At 
5  p.  m.,  the  anchor  was  "hove  up"  and  the  ship  stood  out 
to  sea.  Cape  Henry  was  passed  about  5.45  p.  m.,  the 
course  was  shaped  to  the  southward,  and  the  Ninth  and 
the  other  organizations  aboard  were  on  their  way  to  Ship 
Island. 

The  Florida  coast  was  sighted  during  the  forenoon  of 
Nov.  30,  about  ten  miles  away,  and  the  men  of  the  Ninth 
left  their  recreations,  and  hastened  to  get  a  glimpse  of  the 
scene.  Not  much  was  visible,  however,  but  a  low,  dark 
fringe  of  coast  and  at  times  even  this  was  not  in  plain 
view.  About  8  p.  m.,  on  Sunday,  Dec.  I,  the  revolving 
light  on  a  distant  reef,  the  extreme  southern  point  of 
Florida,  was  sighted.  It  was  some  ten  miles  away.  The 
weather  was  pleasant,  the  night  clear,  the  sky  studded 
with  stars  and  the  sea  smooth  as  glass.  The  Ninth,  and 
other  troops,  crowded  the  main  deck  intent  upon  enjoying 
these  delightful  conditions  and  witnessing  every  object  of 
interest.  The  Constitution  rounded  the  light  above  men- 
tioned at  9.30  p.  m.,  being  then  about  five  miles  distant, 
and  entered  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  On  Tuesday  morning, 
Dec.  3,  a  portion  of  the  Alabama  coast  was  in  sight,  some 
seven  miles  away,  on  the  starboard  side.  The  aspect  was 
not  particularly  attractive,  but  was  intently  viewed  by  the 


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troops.  Ships  of  the  Union  blockading  fleet  were 
sighted  about  2.30  p.  m.,  and  a  hour  later  more  warships 
were  passed.  At  4  p.  m.,  the  Constitution  dropped  anchor 
in  Mississippi  Sound,  half  a  mile  off  the  westerly  end  of 
Ship  Island.  Here  the  voyage  of  the  Constitution  ended. 

The  New  Haven  Palladium,  Dec.  19  1861,  states  that 
"At  Ship  Island,  on  the  4th,  Major  Frye,  of  the  Connecti- 
cut Qth,  accompanying  Gen.  Phelps  to  the  island  pre- 
vious to  the  disembarkation  of  the  troops,  hoisted  upon 
the  lighthouse  there  the  beautiful  American  flag  pre- 
sented to  the  regiment  just  before  its  departure  from  this 
city." 

Ship  Island  had  been  selected  as  the  rendezvous  for  the 
troops  that  were  to  act  in  conjunction  with  the  fleet  for 
the  capture,  from  the  Confederates,  of  New  Orleans.  In 
the  War  of  1812,  the  island  had  been  used  for  a  similar 
purpose  by  the  British,  preparatory  to  their  attack  on  the 
same  city,  then  defended  by  that  gallant  soldier  of  Irish 
parentage — Gen.  Andrew  Jackson. 

On  the  morning  of  Dec.  4,  1861,  everybody  aboard  the 
Constitution  was  awake  at  an  early  hour,  and  after  break- 
fast, began  preparing  to  go  ashore.  About  9  o'clock,  a 
river  steamer,  the  Henry  Lewis,  came  alongside.  She 
took  the  Twenty- sixth  Massachusetts  on  board  and 
landed  the  regiment  at  the  wharf  on  Ship  Island.  At  10 
a.  m.,  the  Ninth  Connecticut  regiment,  and  the  Fourth 
Massachusetts  Light  Battery,  were  conveyed  from  the 
Constitution  to  the  wharf  by  the  same  steamer.  An  hour 
later,  a  lot  of  camp  equipage  was  brought  ashore 
and  the  soldiers  began  securing  their  belongings. 

The  Henry  Lewis  continued  plying  back  and  forth 
some  time,  transferring  supplies  and  other  material, 
and  at  about  4  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  the  troops  went 
into  camp  on  the  island.  The  Ninth  was  located  on 
ground  near  the  lighthouse,  with  the  Twenty-Sixth 
Massachusetts  close  by.  The  Massachusetts  Light  bat- 
tery was  located  at  the  rear  of  Fort  Massachusetts,  about 


60      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

300  yards  from  the  wharf.  The  men  slept  soundly  that 
night.  The  next  day,  the  various  commands  did  consider- 
able work  toward  improving  their  respective  camps.  Gen. 
Phelps  established  his  headquarters  in  a  house  formerly 
occupied  by  the  keeper  of  the  light.  The  steamer  Henry 
Lezvis  continued  plying  back  and  forth  this  day,  between 
the  Constitution  and  the  wharf,  and  brought  ashore  a 
great  amount  of  supplies.  These  were  taken  in  charge 
by  the  commissary  and  the  quartermaster.  Ship  Island 
is  a  dreary  place,  eight  or  ten  miles  long,  and  varying  in 
width  from  a  few  hundred  yards  to  a  mile.  It  is  about 
ten  miles  from  the  nearest  mainland  and  a  few  hours  by 
steamer  from  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi.  The  island 
is  little  more  than  a  big  sand  bar,  and  the  walking  in  the 
loose  sand  is  neither  easy  nor  pleasant.  The  water  be- 
tween the  island  and  the  mainland  is  known  as  Missis- 
sippi Sound.  Through  this  sound,  the  enemy  had  been 
carrying  on  an  extensive  trade  with  New  Orleans  and 
Mobile.  They  used  river  steamers,  chiefly.  The  Henry 
Lewis,  for  instance,  already  mentioned,  had  thus  been 
used  by  the  rebels,  and  was  bound  from  New  Orleans  to 
Mobile,  with  a  cargo  of  sugar  and  molasses,  when  cap- 
tured by  our  blockading  fleet.  Ship  Island  is  one  of  a 
chain  of  islands,  the  others  including  Cat  Island,  Horn 
Island,  Petit  Bois  Island  and  Dauphin  Island.  Of  these, 
Cat  Island  is  about  five  miles  to  the  westward  of  Ship 
Island,  and  Petit  Bois  is  about  sixteen  miles  to  the  east- 
ward. One  of  the  few  good  points  about  Ship  Island 
was  that  water  could  easily  be  obtained  by  digging  a  hole, 
three  or  four  feet  deep,  in  the  sand.  Before  the  war,  the 
island  had  been  a  Summer  resort  for  wealthy  families  of 
the  Gulf  States,  on  account  of  the  health-giving  breezes. 
A  large  hotel  had  been  located  here,  but  about  all  that 
remained  of  it  now  was  a  chimney,  25  or  30  feet  high, 
and  a  pile  of  debris.  Sharks  and  porpoises  were  in  evi- 
dence in  the  waters  surrounding  the  island,  and  thou- 
sands of  gulls  collected  daily  in  the  neighborhood.  On 


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one  part  of  the  island  was  a  forlorn  forest  of  oak  and 
pine.  Ship  Island  was  well  situated  as  a  base  for  opera- 
tions against  New  Orleans.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the 
war,  the  U.  S.  Government  was  constructing  a  fort  on 
the  island,  the  large  force  of  men  engaged  being  under 
Lieut.  F.  E.  Prime,  U.  S.  Engineer.  On  July  6,  1861, 
a  Confederate  force,  consisting  of  three  companies  of  the 
Fourth  Louisiana  Infantry,  under  Capt.  Higgins,  ar- 
rived on  two  steamers  from  New  Orleans,  landed  on  the 
island,  captured  Lieut.  Prime  and  his  men  and  sent  them 
North.  The  Confederates  then  landed  guns,  ammuni- 
tion and  supplies,  erected  barracks  and  started  to  com- 
plete the  fort.  At  7  o'clock  on  the  evening  of  Sept.  16, 
1 86 1,  the  Federal  gunboat  Massachusetts,  and  the  sloops- 
of-war  Marion  and  Preble,  appeared  off  the  island,  so 
alarming  the  enemy  that  the  latter  evactuated,  having,  be- 
fore their  departure,  set  fire  to  the  barracks  and  shanties, 
the  woodwork  of  the  fort,  and  the  lighthouse.  Since 
then  our  people  had  been  in  possession  of  the  island. 
The  fort — Massachusetts — had  been  put  in  as  good  con- 
dition as  circumstances  would  permit  and,  when  the 
Ninth  Connecticut  landed,  was  garrisoned  by  170  seaman 
and  marines  under  command  of  Lieut.  Thomas  McKean 
Buchanan,  executive  officer  of  the  gunboat  Massachusetts. 
In  an  easterly  direction  from  Gen.  Phelps'  headquarters 
could  be  seen  all  that  remained  of  the  English  ship  Elisa- 
beth Bibby,  that  had  been  driven  ashore  by  our  gunboats 
while  she  was  endeavoring  to  run  the  blockade  with  a 
cargo  of  coal. 

Among  the  vessels  of  the  Federal  blockading  fleet  in 
these  waters,  at  the  time  the  Ninth  landed  on  Ship  Island, 
was  the  gunboat  Nezv  London,  Lieut-Commander  Reed. 
She  was  formerly  a  propeller  and  plied  between  New 
London,  Conn.,  and  New  York  City.  She  was  of  221 
tons,  125  feet  in  length,  and  was  purchased  by  the  U.  S. 
Government  in  Aug.,  1861,  for  $30,000.  In  her  new 
sphere  of  action  her  armament  included  four  32-pound 


62      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

broadside  guns  and  one  3O-poimd  rifled  pivot,  which 
latter  she  carried  in  her  bow.  She  rendered  excellent 
service  during  the  war. 

Dec.  4,  1 86 1,  Gen.  Phelps  issued  a  proclamation 
against  slavery.  This  was  considered  a  premature  act 
and  was  disavowed  by  his  superiors.  Phelps,  believing 
that  a  temporizing  policy  was  to  be  followed,  eventually 
resigned.  Late  in  the  afternoon  of  Dec.  7,  the  Constitution 
having  completed  unloading,  departed  for  Boston.  She 
was  heartily  cheered  by  men  of  the  Ninth,  and  other  com- 
mands, gathered  on  the  beach. 

At  Ship  Island  the  Ninth  received  its  arms — the  En- 
field  rifles  already  mentioned.  Dec.  9,  1861,  Col.  Cahill 
issued  "Circular  No.  i,"  containing  instructions  as  to  the 
use  of  the  arms,  and  requiring  every  man  "not  detailed 
for  some  particular  duty  or  on  the  sick  list"  to  be  kept  at 
drill  every  available  moment.  Dec.  13,  the  Colonel 
issued  "'Regimental  Order,  No.  6,"  establishing  the  fol- 
lowing routine : 

Reveille  at  daybreak. 

Police  call  immediately  after  roll  call. 

Surgeon's  call  at  sunrise. 

Breakfast  at  7.30  a.  m. 

Company  Drill  from  8.30  to  10.30  a.  m. 

Guard  Mounting  at  9  a.  m. 

Officers  attend  target  practice  at  10.30  a.  m. 

Recall  from  fatigue  at  12  m. 

Dinner  at  12.30  p.  m. 

Police  at  i  p.  m. 

Company  drill  from  2  to  3  p.  m. 

Recall  from  police  at  3  p.  m. 

Battalion  drill  by  wings  from  3  to  4  p.  m. 

Dress  parade  at  5  p.  m. 

Supper  after  dress  parade. 

Tattoo  at  9  p.  m. 

Taps  ten  minutes  after  tattoo. 

Sunday  inspection  at  8  a.  m. 

Guard  mounting  immediately  after  inspection,  at 
dress  parade  or  at  such  hour  as  may  be  ap- 
pointed. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863  63 

Saturday  afternoon  was  to  be  devoted  to  "a  thorough 
cleaning  of  quarters,  tents,  knapsacks,  arms,  accoutre- 
ments, etc.,  and  to  washing  clothing,  preparatory  to  the 
Sunday  inspection."  Regimental  Order  No.  7,  required 
that  commanders  of  companies  in  the  Ninth  would 
"forthwith  make  a  requisition  upon  the  Quartermaster 
for  the  number  of  knapsacks  required  for  their  com- 
mands, having  those  before  issued  ready  to  return.  They 
will  also  make  a  requisition  forthwith  for  the  number  of 
canteens,,  blankets  and  tin  cups  now  needed  in  their  sev- 
eral commands.  The  Quartermaster-Sergeant  will  com- 
mence to  issue  on  the  above  requisitions  a  8  o'clock  a.  m., 
to-morrow  *  *  *  ." 

Speaking  of  the  early  part  of  the  Ninth's  stay  at  Ship 
Island,  the  CrofFut-Morris  work  on  Connecticut  during 
the  Rebellion  says  of  the  regiment :  "The  men  were  still 
wretchedly  clad,  and  it  was  midwinter.  Nearly  half  of 
them  were  without  shoes  and  as  many  more  without 
shirts;  several  had  no  coats  or  blankets.  Some  drilled 
in  primitive  attire  of  blouse  and  cotton  drawers.  The 
tents  were  hardly  capacious  enough  to  cover  them. 
There  was  no  straw  to  sleep  on.  They  were  without 
transportation,  and  were  obliged  to  bring  the  wood  for 
their  fires  four  miles.  This  was  made  into  rafts,  and  men 
almost  naked,  in  water  up  to  their  arms,  floated  it  down 
to  camp.  The  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts  was  equipped 
with  warm  blankets,  ample  tents,  and  two  uniform  suits 
of  clothing  per  man;  and  to  them  the  members  of  the 
Ninth  furnished  a  contrast  which  would  have  been  amus- 
ing if  it  were  not  humiliating.  With  the  buoyancy  of  the 
Irish  character,  the  men  were  hopeful,  and  during  these 
severe  months  sent  home  to  their  families  not  less  than 
twenty  thousand  dollars, — almost  their  entire  pay." 

On  another  occasion  while  some  of  the  Ninth  were  en- 
gaged unloading  vessels,  or  in  similar  work,  "they  came 
upon  a  stock  of  canvas  shoes  consigned  to  the  post  sutler. 
These  Col.Cahill  immediately  appropriated,  receipting  for 


64     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

them  on  his  own  account,  and  distributing  them  among 
his  barefoot  command.  Gen.  Phelps  could  find  nothing 
in  the  regulations  authorizing  such  an  act ;  but  the  Colo- 
nel found  sufficient  justification  in  the  paramount  law 
of  necessity,"  and  the  men  kept  the  shoes.  The  sutler 
was  later  reimbursed  by  the  government.  During  all  its 
privations,  the  regiment  never  flinched. 

When,  finally,  fully  uniformed  and  equipped,  the 
Ninth  was  excelled  in  appearance  by  no  regiment  in 
the  service.  Lieut.  John  G.  Healy,1  of  the  Ninth,  in 
writing  home  from  Ship  Island,  under  date  of  Dec.  12, 
1861 ;  says:  "For  the  first  time  since  this  island  was  dis- 
covered, Mass  was  offered  up  on  last  Sunday.  I  will  try 
and  picture  to  you  the  scene.  In  front  of  one  of  the 
tents,  and  before  a  rudely  constructed  altar,  knelt  about 
one  thousand  soldiers.  Father  Mullen,  our  worthy  chap- 
lain, was  offering  up  the  sacrifice  of  the  Mass.  There  in 
the  soft,  white  sand  the  poor  fellows  prayed — prayed  to 
God  to  protect  their  wives  and  children,  their  fathers, 
mothers,  brothers  and  sisters — prayed  to  God  to  send 
them  home  safe  to  those  dear  ones  they  had  left  behind. 
After  Mass,  Father  Mullen  preached  an  excellent  ser- 
mon, and  during  that  time  there  were  very  few  dry  eyes. 
Our  chaplain  is  in  good  health.  He  wishes  to  be  remem- 
bered to  you  all."  Making  another  entry,  under  date  of 
Sunday  evening,  Dec.  15,  1861,  the  same  officer  says  in 
his  letter:  "We  had  Mass  again  this  morning  [in  the 
camp  of  the  Ninth],  and  a  much  larger  congregation  than 
on  last  Sunday.  At  an  early  hour,  all  the  Catholics  in 
the  Twenty-sixth  regiment,  Massachusetts  Volunteers, 
came  down  and  the  U.  S.  Marines  from  the  fort  and  off 
the  gunboats  attended.  *  *  *  In  fact,  Father  Mul- 
len had  quite  a  congregation." 

1  Afterwards,  successively,  Captain  and  Lieutenant-Colonel. 


CAI-T.  TERENCE  SHERIDAN. 


LIEUT.  MCH'L  MULLINS. 
LIEUT.  FRANCIS  McKiiuN. 


CHAPTER  V. 

REVIEWS  AND  INSPECTIONS  ON  SHIP  ISLAND— OFFICERS 
OF  THE  NINTH  WITNESS  TARGET  PRACTICE  BY  ARTIL- 
LERY—GENERAL BUTLER  AND  FAMILY  ARRIVE  ON 
THE  ISLAND — THE  NINTH  PARTICIPATES  IN  AN  EXPE- 
DITION TO  BILOXI,  MISS. THE  ENGAGEMENT  OFF 

MISSISSIPPI      CITY — REBEL    GUNBOATS     COME     DOWN 
UNDER  COVER  OF  DARKNESS  AND  OPEN  HOSTILITIES. 

T^vECEMBER  24,  1861,  opened  with  pleasant  weather, 
-L^  and  the  Ninth  early  received  notice  that  a  review 
and  inspection  of  the  troops  was  to  take  place  that  day. 
This  was  to  be  in  honor  of  Commodore  McKean,  com- 
manding the  fleet  outside,  who  was  to  visit  the  island. 
At  the  appointed  time,  he  put  off  from  the  Niagara,  in 
his  cutter,  and  landed  on  the  wharf  at  I  p.  m.  Here  he 
was  duly  received,  and  an  artillery  salute  was  fired  by  the 
Fourth  Massachusetts  battery.  As  the  hour  for  the  re- 
view neared,  line  was  formed,  at  2  p.  m.,  on  the  parade 
ground,  by  Col.  Jones.  The  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts 
was  on  the  right,  the  Ninth  Connecticut  on  the  left,  and 
the  Massachusetts  battery  in  the  centre.  Gen.  Phelps 
and  his  staff,  with  Commodore  McKean  and  other  visit- 
ors, took  up  position  on  a  sandy  knoll  in  front  of  the 
line  and  about  300  feet  from  the  centre  thereof.  The 
column  was  set  in  motion  at  2.30  by  Col.  Jones,  and 
marched  in  review.  The  soft,  yielding  sand  made  the 
march  very  fatiguing.  Half  an  hour  later,  the  troops 
halted  in  their  original  position  and  got  ready  for  inspec- 
tion. "This  duty,"  says  an  eye-witness,  "was  rigidly  per- 
formed by  the  General  himself,  the  smallest  article  carried 
by  the  men  not  escaping  his  keen  eye;  while  the  naval 
officers  who  accompanied  him  appeared  to  be  much  in- 
terested in  the  manner  of  the  army  doing  this  business." 
5 


66     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Inspection  was  over  at  4  p.  m.,  and  the  men  were  dis- 
missed to  their  camps.  An  hour  later,  Commodore 
McKean  returned  to  the  Niagara. 

Writing  from  Ship  Island,  Christmas  evening,  1861, 
Col.  John  G.  Healy,  of  New  Haven,  then  a  lieutenant, 
informs  his  relatives  at  home  that  "We  had  Mass  here 
to-day  at  6,  7  and  10.30  o'clock.  I  had  the  honor  of 
serving.  Oh !  how  differently  was  our  chapel  trimmed 
from  that  of  St.  John's  [in  New  Haven].  In  a  large  tent, 
with  a  rough-looking  altar  before  him,  Father  Mullen 
offered  up  the  Holy  Sacrifice  of  the  Mass,  with  nothing 
under  his  feet  but  the  bare  ground.  *  *  *  After 
Mass,  he  preached  a  sermon  and  when  he  repeated  the 
words :  'Behold,  I  bring  you  glad  tidings  of  great  joy !'  I 
could,  as  it  were,  hear  the  choir  of  St.  John's  singing  that 
beautiful  psalm.  *  *  *  Ours  was  the  only  tent  on 
the  island  that  was  trimmed.  We  got  a  few  bushes  and 
tied  them  up  on  the  outside  and  inside  of  the  tent.  Some 
of  the  boys  in  the  company  got  up  a  dinner  which  was, 
indeed,  excellent.  They  bought  some  potatoes,  cabbage, 
and  some  preserved  turkey — an  article  which  is  put  up 
in  cans.  After  they  had  the  table  'set,'  they  invited  us 
up  to  their  tent  and  we  certainly  had  a  good  dinner ;  but 
how  different  from  the  Christmas  dinners  at  home !" 

On  Dec.  31,  the  troops  were  again  reviewed  by  Gen. 
Phelps.  The  line  was  once  more  formed  under  the 
supervision  of  Col.  Jones,  and  was  made  up  as  on  the  pre- 
vious occasion,  viz:  The  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts 
on  the  right,  the  Ninth  Connecticut  on  the  left  and  the 
battery  in  the  centre.  The  column  was  in  heavy  march- 
ing order  and  moved  forward  in  review  at  9.30  a.  m.  The 
march  was  about  a  mile  and  a  half  in  length,  through  the 
soft  sand.  Inspection  followed,  and  was  concluded  about 
11.30  a.  m.,  when  the  Ninth,  and  the  other  commands, 
were  dismissed  to  their  quarters.  The  officers  of  the 
Ninth  Connecticut  and  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts,  and 
many  of  the  men,  went  to  a  point  near  Gen.  Phelps'  head- 


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quarters,  on  the  afternoon  of  Jan.  14,  1862,  to  witness  tar- 
get practice  by  the  Massachusetts  Light  Battery.  The 
target  was  the  wreck  of  the  English  ship  Elizabeth  Bibby, 
already  mentioned,  located  about  a  mile  and  a  half  away. 
Gen.  Phelps  was  an  interested  spectator  of  the  shooting. 
The  battery  fired  seventeen  rounds  of  spherical  case  shot. 
Seven  of  these  struck  the  wreck,  the  remainder  going 
very  close.  The  result  was  quite  satisfactory,  as  this  was 
the  battery's  first  attempt  in  that  line. 

Day  by  day,  events  of  interest  were  transpiring.  Ships 
were  arriving  from  the  North  with  horses,  supplies  or 
munitions,  captured  vessels  were  being  brought  in  and 
other  incidents  were  taking  place.  During  the  week  of 
Jan.  22,  1862,  a  bakery  was  established  on  the  island,  and 
the  men  were  treated  to  fresh  bread.  Some  excitement 
was  caused  among  the  Ninth,  and  other  troops,  in  the 
forenoon  of  Jan.  23,  by  the  appearance,  about  four  miles 
off  shore,  of  the  Confederate  gunboat  Crescent.  She  was 
under  a  flag  of  truce  and  had  come  from  New  Orleans. 
She  was  met  by  the  Union  gunboat  Water  Witch  and 
escorted  to  the  U.  S.  flagship  Niagara.  The  beach  was 
lined  with  men  of  the  Ninth,  and  their  comrades  of  the 
other  commands,  who  watched  every  movement  of  the 
rebel  craft.  About  2  p.  m.,  the  latter  departed.  It  was 
stated  that  her  object  in  coming  was  to  demand  the  re- 
turn of  a  captured  vessel  brought  in  a  couple  of  days  be- 
fore. The  demand  was,  of  course,  refused.  On  Feb.  i, 
1862,  the  George  Green  sailed  from  Ship  Island  for  Bos- 
ton, Mass.  She  had  on  board  some  members  of  the 
Ninth  who  had  been  discharged  on  account  of  disability, 
and  also  some  men  of  the  Massachusetts  organizations, 
discharged  for  like  reason. 

Corporal  Peabody  of  the  Massachusetts  battery,  writes, 
under  date  of  Feb.  2,  1862 :  "Sunday.  Pleasant  weather 
to-day.  *  *  *  At  i  o  o'clock,  51  of  our  men  mounted 
and,  under  command  of  Lieut.  Henry  Davidson,  left 
camp  on  a  ride  to  the  timber.  Unfortunately,  none  of 


68      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

us  being  horsemen,  we  had  a  hard  time  managing  our 
horses,  especially  when  passing  the  Ninth  Connecticut, 
which  being  drawn  up  in  line  on  the  parade  in  front  of 
their  camp,  were  being  drilled  in  firing  by  regiment, 
blank  cartridges  being  used.  This  firing  greatly  fright- 
ened our  horses.  A  general  stampede  ensued,  the  ani- 
mals flying  in  all  directions.  Many  of  our  men  were 
thrown  into  the  sand  and  left  there  to  return  to  camp  on 
foot.  I  managed  to  hang  on  to  my  horse  and  got  into 
camp  at  noon  without  having  to  walk." 

The  Ninth  had  now  been  on  the  island  two  months, 
and  various  reports  began  to  circulate  among  the  troops. 
One  was  to  the  effect  that  the  projected  expedition 
against  New  Orleans  had  been  abandoned,  and  that  the 
troops  would  be  sent  to  Fortress  Monroe.  Another  re- 
port had  it  that  there  were  but  twenty  days'  rations  left 
on  the  island,  and  so  the  stories  went  on,  being  asserted, 
doubted  and  contradicted.  On  Saturday  forenoon,  Feb. 
8,  the  English  steamer  Labuan,  which  had  been  captured 
near  the  mouth  of  the  Rio  Grande  river,  by  the  U.  S.  S. 
Plymouth,  was  brought  in  by  a  prize  crew.  The  U.  S. 
transport  Constitution,  which  had  long  been  expected  on 
her  return  trip  from  Boston,  appeared  off  the  island  on 
the  forenoon  of  Feb.  12,  and  created  the  wildest  enthu- 
siasm. The  men  from  Connecticut  vied  with  those  from 
Massachusetts  as  to  whom  would  be  the  first  to  reach  the 
beach  to  welcome  her.  When  within  a  couple  of  miles 
of  the  island,  she  hove  to  and  fired  a  gun  "which  found 
an  echo  in  the  throat  of  every  man  on  the  beach." 

The  Constitution  had  on  board  the  Twelfth  Maine  In- 
fantry ;  the  Eastern  Bay  State  regiment,  and  three  com- 
panies of  Massachusetts  unattached  cavalry,  the  whole 
force — 2,400 — men  being  under  the  command  of  Col. 
Shepley.  In  the  afternoon,  the  troops  landed  and  went 
into  camp.  Washington's  birthday  anniversary,  Feb.  22, 
1862,  was  observed  on  the  island  by  an  artillery  salute  of 


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34  guns.  The  Ninth  paraded  in  front  of  its  camp,  the 
band  playing  "The  Star  Spangled  Banner"  and  other  pa- 
triotic airs.  Similar  exercises  were  held  by  the  other  or- 
ganizations present. 

An  incident  of  considerable  interest  occurred  while  the 
Ninth  was  aboard  the  Constitution,  in  Dec.,  1861,  en  route 
to  Ship  Island.  When  the  regiment  arrived  at  Lowell, 
from  New  Haven,  it  was  found  that  a  large  number  of 
boys  had  followed  the  regiment  from  home.  They  were 
all  sent  back,  at  least  it  was  then  so  thought.  But  some 
time  after  leaving  Fortress  Monroe,  it  was  reported  to 
Gen.  Phelps  that  there  were  stowaways  aboard.  They 
were  all  located,  and  when  questioned  gravely  declared 
they  belonged  to  the  Ninth.  The  oldest  of  the  boys  was 
but  fourteen  years  of  age.  The  report  was  brought  into 
the  cabin,  and  Gen.  Phelps,  turning  to  Col.  Cahill,  said : 

"Colonel,  these  boys  say  they  belong  to  the  Ninth  Con- 
necticut !" 

Col.  Cahill  proposed  that  the  General  and  himself  go 
out  on  deck  and  interrogate  the  youths  themselves.  They 
did  so.  The  boys  were  called  up,  one  at  a  time.  The  first 
boy  said  that  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  and  that  he  was 
born  in  Randolph,  Vt.  When  he  told  Gen.  Phelps  his 
name  the  General  said,  with  a  smile : 

"Colonel,  that  is  enough !" 

The  boy  was  a  son  of  Gen.  Phelps'  next  door  neighbor 
in  Randolph.  The  boys  were  mustered  into  the  service 
and  some  of  them  were  added  to  the  boys  of  the  Ninth's 
drum  corps.  Others  were  assigned  to  other  organiza- 
tions aboard.  The  drummer  boys  of  the  Ninth  were  a 
brave  set,  and  never  faltered  wherever  called.  They  were 
greatly  admired  by  the  little  bootblacks  and  newsboys  of 
New  Orleans. 

The  regular  monthly  review  and  inspection  was  held 
on  Ship  Island,  Feb.  28,  the  line  being  formed  at  9  a.  m., 
and  in  the  following  order : 


7o      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts  Infantry,  Col.  Edward  F. 
Jones. 

Fourth  Massachusetts  Light  Battery,  Capt.  Chas.  H. 
Manning. 

First  Co.,  Massachusetts  Unattached  Cavalry,  Capt. 
S.  Tyler  Reed. 

Second  Co.,  Massachusetts  Unattached  Cavalry,  Capt. 
James  Magee. 

Third  Co.,  Massachusetts  Unattached  Cavalry,  Capt. 
H.  A.  Durivage. 

Eastern  Bay  State  Regiment,  Acting  Col.  Jonas  H. 
French. 

Twelfth  Maine  Infantry,  Col.  George  F.  Shepley. 

Ninth  Connecticut  Infantry,  Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill. 


The  line  wheeled  into  column  by  companies,  at  9.30, 
and  passed  in  review  before  Gen.  Phelps  and  staff,  who 
occupied  the  familiar  sand  knoll.  The  march  through 
the  sand  was,  as  usual,  very  tedious,  but  the  men  ac- 
quitted themselves  handsomely.  The  inspection  by  Gen. 
Phelps  was  very  thorough,  and  the  line  was  dismissed  at 
noon. 

Regimental  Order  No.  13,  dated  Feb.  24,  1862,  refer- 
ring to  Co.  K  of  the  Ninth  says :  "  *  *  *  Lieut. 
John  Carroll  of  Co.  F  of  this  regiment,  is  hereby  assigned 
to  the.  command  of  said  Co.  K  until  further  orders,  and 
Lieut.  Charles  S.  Palmer  of  Co.  I,  heretofore  in  command 
of  said  Co.  K,  having  been  promoted  by  order  of  General 
Phelps,  commanding  U.  S.  forces  on  Ship  Island,  by 
Brigade  Order  No.  27,  to  the  post  of  Acting  Asst.-Quar- 
termaster  of  this  Post — will,  therefore,  on  receipt  of  this 
order  turn  over  to  Lieut.  John  Carroll  such  property  as 
may  be  in  his  possession,  belonging  to  said  Co.  K." 

The  Twelfth  Connecticut  regiment,  Col.  Henry  C. 
Deming,  arrived  on  Ship  Island,  March  8  per  steamer 
Fulton,  together  with  six  companies  of  the  Thirteenth 
Maine,  Lieut.-Col.  Henry  Rust.  The  force  aggregated 


IV A  R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  71 

1,600  men  and  was  commanded  by  Col.  Deming.  Also 
arrived  this  day,  the  ship  North  America,  with  the  Four- 
teenth Maine,  Col.  Frank  S.  Nickerson.  In  the  after- 
noon of  March  8,  an  expedition  of  100  men  from  the 
Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts,  under  Col.  Jones,  em- 
barked on  the  steamer  Calhoun  for  Mississippi  City,  located 
on  the  mainland  about  ten  miles  away.  The  object  of 
the  expedition  was  to  learn  the  strength  of  the  enemy  and 
to  ascertain  if  a  lodgment  could  be  made  so  that  a  new 
camp  could  be  established  there.  On  reaching  Missis- 
sippi City,  Col.  Jones  marched  inland  a  few  miles,  had  an 
engagement  and  was  forced  to  retreat,  having  one  man 
wounded.  The  expedition  arrived  back  at  Ship  Island 
at  ii  p.  m.  The  ship  Idaho  arrived  from  Boston  March 
9,  1862,  having  on  board  four  light  batteries,  viz:  the 
First  Vermont,  Second  Vermont,  First  Maine  and  Sixth 
Massachusetts — about  550  men  in  all. 

The  camp  of  the  Ninth  was  not  without  a  little  humor, 
now  and  then.  A  member  of  the  regiment  tells  about 
an  incident  of  this  character.  He  says :  "There  was  big 
Dennis  and  his  educated  pig.  The  latter  was  of  a  stray, 
wild  breed,  with  stripes,  and  had  been  captured  on  the 
island.  Dennis  named  the  pig  'Jeff  Davis,"  taught  him 
to  stand  on  his  hind  legs,  hold  a  pipe  and  perform  various 
other  evolutions.  The  pig  became  quite  a  pet  in  camp. 
Gen.  Phelps  on  going  his  rounds  one  day,  noticed  Den- 
nis and  the  pig,  and  was  invited  to  witness  a  'review.' 
The  General  laughingly  consented,  and  Dennis  pro- 
ceeded to  put  'Jeff  Davis'  through  a  regular  'drill'  with 
pipe  and  stick.  Gen.  Phelps  was  heartily  amused  by  the 
performance.  The  pig  went  with  Dennis  to  New  Or- 
leans and  from  thence  was  sent  to  New  Haven  by  ex- 
press." 

In  Regimental  Order  No.  14,  issued  to  the  Ninth, 
March  16,  1862,  it  is  stated  that  "Adjutant  Alfred  G. 
Hall  of  this  regiment  has  been  appointed  aide-de-camp 
and  acting  assistant  adjutant-general  on  the  Brigade 


72     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

staff,  by  Brigade  Order  No.  35.  In  consequence  of  the 
above  appointment,  Patrick  T.  Claffee  is  hereby  ap- 
pointed acting-adjutant,  subject  to  the  confirmation  of 
His  Excellency,  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Connecti- 
cut, and  will  be  obeyed  and  respected  accordingly." 

St.  Patrick's  Day,  1862,,  was  appropriately  celebrated 
by  the  Ninth.  The  regiment  was  excused  by  Gen.  But- 
ler from  routine  duty  that  day,  and  made  the  occasion 
one  of  festivity  in  camp. 

Troops  continued  to  come.  Brig.-Gen.  Thomas  Wil- 
liams and  staff  arrived  off  the  island  on  the  afternoon  of 
March  12,  on  the  Constitution,  together  with  three  regi- 
ments— the  Sixth  Michigan  Infantry,  Twenty-first  In- 
diana and  Fourth  Wisconsin.  They  landed  next  day. 
March  20,  the  Mississippi  arrived,  having  on  board 
Major-Gen.  Benjamin  F.  Butler  and  family,  who  had 
been  taken  on  board  at  Fortress  Monroe.  The  Missis- 
sippi also  brought  the  Thirty-first  Massachusetts  and  four 
companies  of  the  Thirteenth  Maine.  Gen.  Butler  landed 
on  the  island,  March  23,  and  was  given  an  artillery  salute 
of  thirteen  guns  from  the  fort.  On  March  29,  he  issued 
General  Order  No.  8,  covering  the  embarkation  of  troops 
for  a  movement  against  New  Orleans.  The  troops 
selected  included  the  Ninth  Connecticut,  and  numbered 
about  6,000  men — comprising  the  brigades  of  Gen. 
Phelps  and  Gen.  Williams.  All  preparations  were  made 
and  many  of  the  troops  were  embarked,  when  orders 
were  received  countermanding  the  embarkation,  and  or- 
dering the  troops  already  on  board  ship  to  return  to  the 
island.  The  reason  for  this,  it  was  stated,  was  that 
"Farragut  had  as  yet  been  unable  to  get  his  large  ships 
over  the  bar  at  South  West  Pass." 

Gen.  Butler's  staff  at  Ship  Island  comprised  the  fol- 
lowing: Major  George  C.  Strong,  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  ordnance  officer,  and  chief  of  staff ;  Capt.  Jonas 
H.  French,  aide-de-camp,  and  inspector  general ;  Capt. 
Peter  Haggerty,  aide-de-camp ;  Capt.  George  A.  Kensel, 


CHAPLAIN  DAN'L  MULLEN. 
CAPT.  JOHN  DUFFY. 


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chief  of  artillery;  First  Lieut.  W.  H.  Weigle,  aide-de- 
camp ;  First  Lieut.  James  W.  Gushing  (Thirty-first  Mass. 
Vols.),  acting  chief  quartermaster ;  First  Lieut.  James  E. 
Easterbrook  (Thirty-first  Mass.  Vols.),  acting  chief  com- 
missary; First  Lieut.  Godfrey  Weitzel,  chief  engineer; 
First  Lieut.  John  C.  Palfrey,  assistant  engineer;  First 
Lieut.  Charles  N.  Turnbull,  chief  topographical  engineer; 
Surgeon  Thomas  H.  Bache,  medical  director;  Major 
Joseph  M.  Bell,  volunteer  A.  D.  C. ;  Capt.  Richard  S. 
Davis,  volunteer  A.  D.  C. ;  First  Lieut.  J.  B.  Kinsman, 
volunteer  A.  D.  C. ;  Second  Lieut.  H.  E.  Clark,  volun- 
teer A.  D.  C. 

And  now  an  event  of  unusual  importance  took  place. 
On  the  forenoon  of  April  i,  1862,  the  gunboat  New  Lon- 
don brought  to  Ship  Island  a  small  schooner,  captured 
near  Biloxi,  Miss.  In  addition  to  the  crew,  there  had 
been  on  the  schooner,  previous  to  capture,  a  married 
couple  with  their  child,  the  latter  being  about  five  years 
of  age,  traveling  from  Mobile  to  New  Orleans.  Upon 
the  appearance  of  the  Yankee  gunboat  the  parents  be- 
came frightened,  abandoned  the  child  and  escaped  in  a 
small  boat.  Capt.  Reed  of  the  Nezv  London  brought  the 
child  to  Ship  Island  and  gave  her  in  charge  of  Gen.  But- 
ler. The  next  morning,  Major  Strong,  Captains  French 
and  R.  S.  Davis,  and  Lieutenants  Turnbull  and  Kinsman 
of  Gen.  Butler's  staff,  Capt.  Conant  of  Co.  G,  Thirty- 
first  Massachusetts,  and  others,  with  the  little  girl,  em- 
barked in  a  sloop  and,  under  a  flag  of  truce,  left  for 
Biloxi,  to  place  the  child  in  the  hands  of  the  authorities 
there,  intending  to  have  them  return  her  to  her  parents. 
The  sloop  reached  Biloxi,  the  child  was  placed  in  safe 
hands  and  the  Union  party  had  returned  to  the  sloop  and 
started  for  Ship  Island.  On  the  way  out  of  Biloxi,  the 
sloop  grounded  on  a  sand  bar,  whereupon  the  enemy, 
disregarding  the  flag  of  truce,  fired  upon  her. 

This  conduct  of  the  rebels  so  angered  Gen.  Butler, 
that  the  Ninth  Connecticut  regiment,  and  the  Sixth 


74     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Massachusetts  battery,  were  at  once  ordered  to  Biloxi  to 
punish  the  foe.  The  men  embarked  on  the  Henry  Lewis 
and  started  at  3.45  p.  m.,  April  2,  accompanied  by  the 
New  London  and  the  /.  P.  Jackson.  Among  those  going 
with  the  expedition  were  Major  Strong,  of  Gen.  Butler's 
staff,  and  a  number  of  other  officers  volunteering  for  the 
expedition.  Col.  Cahill  had  command  of  the  Ninth,  and 
the  orders  were  to  burn  the  town  if  an  apology  were  not 
promptly  forthcoming.  The  Third  Mississippi  regiment, 
(Confederate),  had  been  occupying  Biloxi,  but  had  fallen 
back  some  miles  into  the  country.  The  Federal  landing 
was,  therefore,  unopposed  save  by  a  single  bloodthirsty 
individual.  The  inhabitants  of  the  place  lined  the  beach, 
as  the  Yankees  approached,  "and  one  wild  son  of  Missis- 
sippi stood  on  the  wharf,  rifle  in  hand,  defying  the  troops 
to  come  on  shore."  He  soon  consented  to  retreat,  how- 
ever, and  was  later  captured.  Col.  Cahill  took  posses- 
sion of  the  town.  The  mayor  had  disappeared,  but  in  a 
short  time  he  was  captured  and  brought  in.  He  proved 
that  he  was  not  responsible  for  the  firing  on  the  Yankee 
sloop,  and  that  the  authors  of  the  outrage  were  stragglers 
over  whom  he  had  no  control.  So  the  town  was  spared. 
Soon  after  our  troops  landed  at  Biloxi,  writes  Lieut, 
(afterwards  Capt.  and  Lieut. -Col.)  Healy  of  the  Ninth, 
a  guard  was  "sent  to  the  residence  of  the  mayor  for 
the  purpose  of  bringing  him  to  headquarters  to  apologize 
for  the  firing  on  the  flag  of  truce.  The  officer  in  charge 
of  the  guard,  Capt.  Wright  of  Co.  G  (of  the  Ninth),  was 
instructed  that  if  he  could  not  find  the  mayor,  he  was  to 
bring  a  member  of  the  latter's  family,  as  hostage,  and  to 
leave  word  for  him  to  come  after,  inside  of  one  hour,  or 
we  would  bring  the  captured  member  of  the  family  to 
Ship  Island.  Capt.  Wright  and  the  guard  started  out, 
but  could  not  find  the  mayor.  So  they  brought  in  the 
latter's  wife.  In  less  than  a  hour,  the  mayor  made  his 
appearance  and  was  taken  to  headquarters." 


W 'A R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  75 

The  inhabitants  were  a  poverty-stricken,  wretched  lot 
of  people  and  drew  exclamations  of  pity,  even  from  the 
soldiers.  The  troops  established  themselves  in  the  cen- 
ter of  the  town,  pickets  were  thrown  out,  an  attack  pre- 
pared for,  but  none  came. 

It  was  soon  rumored  that  a  force  of  the  enemy,  1,800 
strong,  was  at  Pass  Christian,  twenty  miles  to  the  west- 
ward. A  conference  between  Col.  Cahill  and  Major 
Strong  was  held,  to  consider  the  situation,  and  it  was  de- 
cided to  sail  down  and  attack  the  place.  They  had  no 
orders  from  Gen.  Butler  to  do  this,  but  relied  upon  the 
success  they  were  confident  they  would  achieve,  to  justify 
them  in  the  course.  Accordingly  on  the  evening  of 
April  3,  the  Ninth  and  the  rest  of  the  troops  re-em- 
barked on  the  Henry  Lewis,  which  was  armed  with  two 
three-inch  Sawyer  guns  in  her  bow.  That  night,  she 
anchored  off  Mississippi  City.  About  4  a.  m.,  April  4, 
while  the  Lewis  was  still  at  anchor,  the  three  rebel  gun- 
boats Pamlico,  Oregon  and  Carondelet,  having  stolen  down 
in  the  darkness,  made  a  furious  attack  upon  her.  At  the 
time  the  attack  opened,  Col.  Cahill  of  the  Ninth  was 
aboard  one  of  the  Federal  gunboats  arranging  a  plan  for 
the  contemplated  movement  against  Pass  Christian.  He 
was  advised  to  hurry  to  the  Henry  Lewis  and  "run  her 
into  shoal  water  so  that  when  she  sunk,  the  men  could 
get  ashore.  He  started  at  once,  and  returned  in  an  open 
boat  through  the  midst  of  the  fire.  A  rebel  gunboat 
was  plying  savagely,  with  shot  and  shell,  the  crowded 
transport.  Several  shots  took  effect.  One  passed 
through  the  wheelhouse ;  one  crashed  through  the  cabin, 
turning  Father  Mullen,  the  chaplain,  suddenly  out  of  his 
berth.  *  *  *  Such  is  a  description  of  the  engage- 

ment, given  by  the  Croffut-M orris  volume,  which  thus 
continues:  As  soon  as  Col.  Cahill  "was  within  hailing 
distance,  he  shouted  to  his  men  to  fire;  and  the  saucy 
little  pieces  instantly  replied  to  the  enemy's  guns.  The 


76      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

rebel  was  now  near  and  broadside  to.  The  officers  of  the 
Ninth  superintended  the  firing."  One  shot  shattered  a 
rebel  pilot-house;  "another  cut  the  tiller  rope.  The 
Lewis  had  all  steam  on  and  was  backing  towards  shore. 
Soon  the  overmatched  rebel  gunboats  made  off,  rapidly 
pursued  by  our  own." 

Another  account  of  the  fight  states  that  the  rebel  gun- 
boats had  "stolen  down  Lake  Borgne  in  the  darkness,  to 
within  cannon-shot  of  our  little  fleet.  The  Henry  Lewis 
received  the  first  fire  of  the  enemy,  the  Carondelet  sending 
a  ten-inch  shot,  (i2O-pounder),  through  the  cabin,  which 
smashed  things  generally,  and  another  shot  carried  away 
her  wheelhouse.  The  rough  treatment  the  Lewis  was 
receiving,  for  a  few  moments  threw  the  Ninth  Connecti- 
cut regiment  and  Everett's  battery  into  much  confusion, 
but  soon  the  battery  got  their  little  guns  at  work 
and  returned  shot  for  shot.  At  the  time  the  Carondelet 
pitched  into  the  Lewis,  the  Pamlico  and  Oregon  attacked 
the  New  London  and  Jackson  [gunboats] .  At  4.30  (a.  m.)3 
our  gunboats  having  succeeded  in  getting  under  way, 
opened  fire  and  moved  toward  the  enemy.  *  *  * 
Capt.  Reed  of  the  New  London,  with  the  same  reckless 
daring  he  always  exhibits  in  action,  pushed  his  little  ves- 
sel into  the  thickest  of  the  fight  in  an  attempt  to  bring 
the  Carondelet  to  close  quarters ;  but  his  attempts  in  this 
direction  were  all  defeated,  the  enemy  continuing  to  re- 
treat up  the  lake,  fighting  at  long  range  until  6  a.  m., 
when  they  withdrew  from  the  conflict  and  steamed  away 
toward  New  Orleans."  During  the  fight,  besides  the 
damage  to  the  Henry  Lewis,  the  New  London  was  struck 
in  the  cutwater,  and  Capt.  Conant,  of  the  Thirty-first 
Massachusetts,  who  was  aboard  the  Lewis,  was  slightly 
wounded.  Corporal  Peabody  of  the  Fourth  Massachu- 
setts Light  Battery  thus  describes  the  interest  displayed 
at  Ship  Island  while  the  foregoing  engagement  was  in 
progress : 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  77 

"April  4,  Friday.  With  the  first  streak  of  day,  our 
company  was  aroused  by  the  sound  of  heavy  firing. 
Turning  out,  the  boys  rushed  to  the  outside  of  the  fort, 
and  then  we  learned  the  cause  of  the  disturbance.  Away 
in  the  direction  of  Biloxi,  we  saw  a  succession  of  bright 
flashes,  to.be  soon  followed  by  the  report  of  heavy  guns, 
which  revealed  to  us  the  fact  that  our  gunboats  were  en- 
gaging those  of  the  enemy.  For  a  time,  the  fight  seemed 
to  be  stationary,  but,  finally,  a  change  in  the  direction  of 
the  flashes,  indicated  that  the  vessels  were  under  way 
and  appeared  to  be  falling  back.  At  this  juncture,  4.30 
a.  m.,  Commander  Homer  C.  Blake,  of  the  gunboat 
Hatteras,  slipping  the  anchor,  dashed  away  under  a  full 
head  of  steam,  to  aid  in  the  fight.  For  over  an 
hour  more  the  fight  went  on,  the  heavy  guns  on  both 
sides  belching  out  every  minute.  *  *  *  It  was  a  big 
audience  that  witnessed  this  little  fight,  nearly  every  sol- 
dier on  the  island  being  collected  around  the  fort  and 
along  the  beach." 

One  of  the  Ninth's  officers  states  that  after  leaving 
Biloxi  for  Pass  Christian  "everything  went  on  well 
until  about  4  o'clock  the  next  morning,  when  three 
rebel  gunboats  were  seen  coming  toward  us.  The 
Captain  and  myself  occupied  one  of  the  staterooms. 
I  was  awakened  by  hearing  someone  say  that  there 
were  three  rebel  boats  coming  after  us.  I  got  out, 
went  into  the  cabin,  returned  to  my  stateroom,  and  just 
as  I  was  putting  on  my  coat  a  shell  from  the  enemy 
struck  our  boat.  It  went  through  the  cabin  and  knocked 
a  hole  in  the  room  we  were  in.  But,  thanks  be  to  God, 
we  were  not  injured !  Then  the  excitement  commenced. 
The  New  London  and  Jackson  fired  away  at  the  rebel 
boats  and  they  fired  at  us."  A  shot  from  the  New  London 
"knocked  the  wheelhouse  off  one  of  the  rebel  boats,  tak- 
ing the  two  legs  from  the  pilot."  An  examination  was 
then  made  to  ascertain  how  many  were  injured  on  the 


7  8      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Henry  Lewis.  It  was  found  that  only  a  few  were  hurt 
and  they  slightly.  "One  of  the  officers  present  (Capt. 
Conant),  received  a  slight  wound  in  the  leg.  Two  of  the 
Ninth's  band  were  slightly  wounded.  Michael  McDon- 
ough  of  our  company  (C  of  the  Ninth),  received  a  slight 
wound  on  the  cheek,  occasioned  by  part  of  a  shell  that 
had  burst.  The  piece  hit  him  hard  enough  to  draw 
blood.  I  never  saw  men  like  those  of  the  gallant  Ninth ! 
It  was  as  much  as  the  officers  could  do  to  keep  them  in  a 
safe  place.  I  saw  some  of  them  coolly  lighting  their  pipes 
and  smoking  while  the  enemy  was  firing.  They  were  as 
cool  as  cucumbers." 


CAPT.   ELLIOT  M.   CURTIS. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

THE  FIGHT  AT  PASS   CHRISTIAN THE   NINTH   LANDS  AND 

MARCHES    THROUGH    THE    PLACE MEETS   A    CONFED- 
ERATE   FORCE    BEYOND GALLANT    CHARGE    BY    THE 

MEN  FROM  CONNECTICUT CAPTURE  OF  THE  FLAG  OF 

THE      THIRD       MISSISSIPPI WARM       COMMENDATION 

FROM  GEN.  BUTLER THE  START  FROM  NEW  ORLEANS. 

SOME  hours  after  the  close  of  the  engagement  with 
the  rebel  gunboats,  preparations  were  completed 
for  the  attack  on  the  enemy  at  Pass  Christian.  The 
Federal  squadron  had,  in  the  meantime,  been  increased 
by  the  arrival  of  the  gunboat  Hatter  as, 

About  10  or  ii  a.  m.,  the  same  day,  April  4,  1862,  the 
squadron  moved  up  toward  the  wharf  at  the  place  men- 
tioned. It  was  expected  that  the  landing  would  be  con- 
tested, as  a  report  had  been  received  that  the  rebels  had 
a  regiment  of  infantry,  two  companies  of  cavalry  and  a 
battery  of  artillery  in  the  place.  Before  the  Ninth,  and 
Everett's  battery,  landed,  therefore,  the  gunboats  threw 
a  few  shells  into  the  woods  and  into  some  of  the  principal 
buildings.  The  troops  then  went  ashore  and  finding  no 
rebel  force,  immediately  went  in  search  of  the  latter. 

"Col.  Cahill  of  the  Ninth,  and  Major  Strong  of  Gen. 
Butler's  staff,  with  four  companies  of  the  Ninth,  went  out 
on  the  main  road  in  rear  of  two  companies  of  the  Ninth, 
deployed  as  skirmishers,  and  commanded  by  Capt. 
French  of  Butler's  staff.  Lieut.-Col.  Fitz  Gibbon  and 
Major  Frye,  each  with  two  companies  of  the  Ninth,  de- 
ployed to  the  right  and  left  of  the  road.  In  this  order, 
the  line  moved  forward  for  two  miles,  when  the  enemy, 
comprising  several  companies  of  the  Third  Mississippi 
infantry,  Brown's  battery  and  Norman's  cavalry — the 
whole  force  commanded  by  Lieut.-Col.  Mellen  of  the 


8o      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Third — were  found  drawn  up  in  line  of  battle.  A  sharp 
fight  ensued  in  which  the  rebels  were  beaten  and  driven 
to  Camp  Suggville,  which  our  troops  captured,  together 
with  the  fine  silk  flag  of  the  regiment.  In  this  fight,  Pri- 
vate John  Leonard,  Co.  A,  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut,  was 
wounded  and  the  only  man  hurt.  He  was  struck  in 
the  left  arm,  below  the  elbow.  After  this  engagement, 
our  troops  returned  to  Pass  Christian  and  camped  there 
until  the  next  morning,  Nov.  5.  *  *  *  This  morn- 
ing (Nov.  5)  the  boys  of  the  Ninth  and  of  Everett's 
Massachusetts  battery  are  feeling  jubilant  over  the  fight 
of  yesterday,  and  well  they  may.  *  *  * 

Another  account  states  that  the  Third  Mississippi 
"Kept  up  a  constant  fusilade  as  the  Ninth  advanced;  but 
the  latter  fired  one  volley,  and  charged  with  an  Irish 
'Y-a-a-a-a-ah  !'  "  when  the  defenders  of  the  soil  broke  and 
ran  to  the  woods.  The  victors  scattered  themselves 
through  the  comfortable  camp,  and  made  themselves  at 
home.  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  (then  a  lieutenant), 
found  in  the  commander's  tent  this  dispatch  to  Gen. 
Lovell,  (Confederate),  at  New  Orleans:  'The  Federals 
are  landing  in  force.  I  shall  defend  the  place.  Have 
eight  hundred  infantry,  two  companies  of  cavalry,  and 
two  batteries."  The  ink  was  not  dry  when  he  was  re- 
treating, demoralized,  in  the  direction  of  a  force  that  had 
gone  to  recapture  Biloxi. 

"The  camp  was  well  provided  and  amply  furnished  ;  the 
officers'  quarters  even  possessing  a  piano.  They  aban- 
doned tents  and  equipage,  arms  and  ammunition,  food 
and  everything  else ;  and  the  Ninth  loaded  the  transport 
with  as  much  as  they  could  carry  back  to  the  island. 
Next  morning,  they  embarked ;  and,  before  leaving,  a 
committee  came  down  and  expressed  the  thanks  of  the 
citizens  for  the  good  conduct  of  the  soldiers  during  the 
night.  The  regiment  returned  to  the  island  in  high 
spirits,  bearing  among  their  trophies  sundry  wrought- 
iron  bowie  knives  (one  of  them  marked  'Yankee  exter- 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  81 

initiator1)  and  a  beautiful  silk  flag  (of  the  Third  Missis- 
sippi), carried  off  in  spite  of  the  tearful  protestations  of 
the  fair  rebels  who  made  it." 

Col.  John  G.  Healy,  of  New  Haven,  then  a  lieutenant 
in  the  Ninth,  wrote  the  following  little  sketch  of  the  Pass 
Christian  affair  shortly  after:  "A  white  flag  was  hung 
out  of  one  house,  but  we  took  no  notice  of  it,  as  it  was 
not  in  the  proper  place.  We  started  to  go  up  to  the  dock, 
but  went  aground  instead,  so  that  the  troops  had  to  be 
landed  in  small  boats.  The  first  companies  landed  were 
sent  out  as  skirmishers  and  on  picket  duty.  As  we  landed 
before  the  color  company,  the  Colonel  ordered  our  com- 
pany to  take  charge  of  the  colors  until  the  landing  of  that 
company.  The  Ninth  formed  in  the  principal  street  and 
awaited  further  orders.  We  very  soon  received  informa- 
tion that  the  rebels  were  encamped  within  six  miles  of 
us.  We  procured  a  guide  and  started  to  meet  them.  We 
had  marched  some  time  when  the  pickets  discovered 
them  coming  to  meet  us.  We  wrent  on  but  a  short  dis- 
tance further,  when  they  fired  a  shell  at  us,  but  it  did  no 
damage.  They  had  fired  a  few  more  shells,  when  our 
artillery  came  up  and  replied."  The  enemy  soon  fell  back 
to  a  bridge  where  they  intended  to  make  a  stand,  but,  as 
the  same  officer  continues,  "we  soon  routed  them  again, 
firing  as  we  advanced.  They  attempted  to  destroy  the 
bridge,  but  we  were  too  close  upon  them.  We  fixed  the 
bridge  so  that  the  artillery  could  pass,  and  then  went  on. 
Just  before  we  had  come  to  the  bridge,  one  of  our  skir- 
mishers came  in  and  informed  us  that  the  rebels  had  a 
masked  battery  a  short  distance  from  the  left  of  our  com- 
pany. At  this  time  the  company  was  in  the  woods  in 
support  of  the  skirmishers.  I  went  to  the  main  body  of 
the  regiment  and  informed  Major  Strong  of  what  I  had 
heard.  He  gave  orders  for  us  to  charge  the  battery  and 
capture  it.  I  transmitted  the  order  to  the  Captain  and 
he  immediately  commanded:  'Double  quick!'  and  you 
may  well  say  it  was  quick.  I  never  saw  men  rush  for- 
6 


82      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

vvard  so  in  my  life.  But  we  were  disappointed,  for  on 
reaching  the  place  where  we  supposed  the  battery  to  be 
located,  we  found  that  it  was  only  a  kind  of  decoy.  The 
rebels  had  felled  some  trees  and  put  them  together  so 
that  at  a  short  distance  away  the  structure  looked  as 
though  constructed  for  a  battery.  We  then  marched  by 
company  front  upon  the  camp  of  the  rebels."  In  ac- 
cordance with  orders,  this  was  afterwards  burned. 

Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  of  New  Haven,  then  a  lieu- 
tenant, writing  about  the  attack  on  the  rebels  at  Pass 
Christian,  says :  "We  were  separated  in  columns  of  com- 
panies and  attacked  them  from  so  many  points  that  the 
enemy  imagined  we  were  a  brigade.  When  we  were 
close  upon  them,  they  broke  and  fled  in  disorder,  leaving 
all  their  camp  equipage  in  our  possession.  In  this 
charge,  my  company  had  to  cross  a  bayou  over  which 
we  all  attempted  to  leap,  but  only  a  little  more  than  half 
our  number  got  over  with  dry  feet.  Capt.  Patrick 
Garvey  and  some  of  the  men  were  compelled  to  climb 
the  bank,  while  I  and  the  other  members  of  our  company, 
who  had  cleared  the  stream,  were  in  advance.  Capt. 
Garvey  shouted  to  me :  'Keep  them  at  it !'  So  we  rushed 
on  and  were  the  first  to  reach  the  rebel  camp.  I  rushed 
to  the  deserted  headquarters,  and  upon  a  table  found  the 
following  dispatch:  [See  foregoing].  *  *  *  I  gave 
this  dispatch  to  Col.  Cahill  in  presence  of  Dr.  Charles  A. 
Gallagher  and  our  chaplain,  Father  Mullen.  The  Colonel 
delivered  it  to  Major  Strong,  who  reported  it  to  Gen. 
Butler.  While  we  were  attacking  the  left  wing  of  the 
enemy,  Capt.  William  Wright  charged  on  their  right  and 
captured  a  new  flag  which  had  been  presented  the  Third 
Mississippi  the  day  before.  This  was  one  of  the  first 
flags  captured  by  the  Union  troops  during  the  war,  and 
was  sent  North  to  become  one  of  the  attractions  at  the 
big  Sanitary  Fair  held  in  New  York  city.  I  never  saw 
such  enthusiasm  as  that  displayed  in  this  charge  on  the 
rebel  camp,  every  officer  and  man  endeavoring  to  distin- 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863,  83 

guish  himself.  All  the  prizes  we  could  not  carry  away 
from  the  captured  place,  we  burned.  *  *  *  We  secured 
a  quantity  of  note  paper  at  the  post  office,  with  Confed- 
erate printed  headlines.  This  was  sent  to  our  friends  in 
the  North  and  prized  by  them  as  souvenirs.  We  returned 
to  Ship  Island  loaded  down  with  trophies  of  war.  All 
the  troops  rushed  down  to  the  landing  and  gave  us  a 
most  welcome  reception  back  home  to  the  island." 

Col.  Cahill  afterwards  wrote  concerning  these  events 
at  Biloxi  and  Pass  Christian :  "While  at  this  place, 
[Biloxi],  we  received  reliable  information  that  the  enemy 
were  encamped  in  some  force,  (two  regiments,  a  battery 
and  two  companies  of  cavalry),  at  Pass  Christian,  some 
twenty  miles  distant.  *  *  *  Accordingly,  on  the 
night  of  the  second  day,  we  left  Biloxi,  and  with  the  gun- 
boats [New  London  and  Jackson],  sailed  down  the  sound. 
A  storm  came  up  suddenly,  and  it  being  impossible  to 
navigate  in  those  waters,  having  no  good  pilots,  we  were 
obliged  to  come  to  anchor  below  Mississippi  City,  where, 
at  an  hour  before  daylight  the  next  morning  we  were 
attacked  by  three  rebel  gunboats,  the  Pamlico,  Oregon, 
and  Carondelet,  bringing  eleven  heavy  guns  into  action. 
The  New  London  and  Jackson,  however,  came  gallantly 
up  to  their  work.  *  *  *  The  anchors  of  the  Lewis 
had  got  fouled  in  some  way,  and  we  experienced  great 
difficulty  in  getting  under  way,  being  all  the  time  under 
a  very  heavy  fire.  Accompanying  us  were  two  guns  of 
the  Sixth  Massachusetts  battery, — 3-inch  steel  rifles — 
with  which  we  kept  up  a  rapid  and  accurate  fire,  damag- 
ing the  enemy  considerably. 

"The  enemy  finding  he  was  getting  the  worst  of  the 
fight,  made  for  the  shoals  off  Cat  Island,  where  our  gun- 
boats could  not  follow,  and  escaped.  All  this  occupied 
considerable  time,  and  it  was  late  in  the  afternoon  before 
we  could  land  the  men  and  the  two  small  guns.  We  got 
them  all  ashore  by  6  p.  m.,  and  immediately  moved  on  the 
enemy,  whom  we  ascertained  to  be  about  three  or  four 


84     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

miles  from  the  landing.  We  found  the  enemy  advancing 
in  column,  with  artillery  in  front.  We  received  the  fire 
from  his  two  pieces  of  artillery.  I  ordered  a  charge,  and 
the  enemy  broke,  and  ran  for  a  bridge  across  a  creek  in 
his  rear,  tearing  up  the  bridge.  After  a  short  delay,  we 
crossed  and  followed  in  pursuit,  but  being  obliged  to  drag 
our  guns  by  hand,  we  could  not  overtake  him.  We  fol- 
lowed him  to  his  camp,  and  destroyed  and  carried  away 
all  his  camp  and  garrison  equipage,  remaining  on  the 
ground  until  9  p.  m." 

In  view  of  the  results  attained,  Gen.  Butler  issued  the 
following : 

HEADQUARTERS,  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  GULF, 

April  12,  1862. 
GENERAL  ORDERS  No.  10. 

The  Major-General  commanding  desires  publicly  to 
testify  his  appreciation  of  the  gallant  courage  and  good 
conduct  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Volunteers,  Colonel 
Cahill  commanding,  and  a  section  of  the  Sixth  Massa- 
chusetts Battery,  on  a  recent  expedition  to  Biloxi  and 
Pass  Christian  *  *  *  . 

Of  their  bravery  in  the  field  he  felt  assured,  but  another 
quality,  more  trying  to  the  soldier,  claims  his  admiration. 
After  having  been  for  months  subjected  to>  the  privations 
necessarily  incident  to  camp  life  upon  this  island,  these 
well-disciplined  soldiers,  although  for  many  hours  in  full 
possession  of  two  rebel  villages  filled  with  what  to  them 
were  most  desirable  luxuries,  abstained  from  the  least 
unauthorized  interference  with  private  property  and  all 
molestation  of  peaceful  citizens.  This  behavior  is  worthy 
of  all  praise  *  *  *  . 

The  General  commanding  commends  the  action  of  the 
men  of  this  expedition  to  every  soldier  in  this  department. 
Let  it  be  imitated  by  all  in  the  towns  and  cities  we  shall 
occupy,  a  living  witness  that  the  United  States  soldier 
fights  only  for  the  Union,  the  Constitution,  and  the  en- 
forcement of  the  laws. 

By  command  of  MAJ.-GEN.  BUTLER, 
GEORGE  C.  STRONG,  A.  A.  General. 

In  its  issue  of  April  30,  1862,  the  New  Haven  Palladium 
notes  the  fact  that :  "A  member  of  the  Ninth  Connect!- 


W 'A  R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  85 

cut  regiment,  writing  home  to  his  wife,  mentions  that 
after  the  rout  of  the  rebels  at  Pass  Christian,  a  party  [of 
the  Ninth]  proceeded  to  a  small  house  to  ascertain  if 
refreshments  of  some  kind  could  be  obtained.  At  the 
house  they  recognized  a  woman  there  as  an  old  acquaint- 
ance, who  formerly  resided  in  New  Haven.  The  family 
were  utterly  destitute,  and  all  [the  men]  could  obtain 
was  a  drink  of  buttermilk.  They  paid  her  ten  cents 
apiece  for  the  buttermilk,  and  then  distributed  the 
crackers  in  their  knapsacks  to  the  children." 

In  a  letter  to  Col.  Cahill,  in  1862,  after  the  events  at 
Biloxi  and  Pass  Christian,  Governor  Buckingham  of 
Connecticut,  wrote:  "It  is  hardly  necessary  for  me  to 
say  that  the  conduct  of  your  men  meets  my  cordial  ap- 
proval, and  I  am  proud  of  both  officers  and  their  com- 
mand." 

A  circular  issued  to  the  Ninth,  April  10,  1862,  by  the 
Colonel,  states  that  "Sergeant  Walter  Maloney,  of  Co.  A, 
and  Sergeant  Patrick  Ingoldsby,  of  Co.  C,  are  appointed 
color  sergeants  of  this  regiment,  and  will  be  exempt  from 
all  guard  duty." 

On  April  TO,  1862,  Col.  Cahill  issued  Regimental  Order 
No.  20,  from  the  camp  of  the  Ninth  on  Ship  Island.  The 
order  provided  as  follows : 


First  Lieutenant  M.  A.  Williams,  of  Co.  A,  is  hereby 
appointed  to  the  office  of  captain,  made  vacant  by  the 
resignation  of  Captain  John  Duffy.  Second  Lieutenant 
John  Cogan  is  appointed  First  Lieutenant,  [vice]  Wil- 
liams, promoted.  First  Sergeant  Farrell  H.  Gallagher,  of 
the  same  company,  is  also  appointed  a  second  lieutenant, 
vice  Second  Lieutenant  Cogan,  promoted. 

The  above  appointments  will  take  effect  from  the  date 
of  Captain  Duffy's  discharge  (April  10),  and  are  subject 
to  the  confirmation  of  His  Excellency,  the  Governor  of 
the  State  of  Connecticut,  and  will  be  obeyed  and  re- 
spected accordingly. 

The  following  non-commissioned  officers  are  hereby 
appointed  in  Co.  A,  the  date  of  their  appointment  to  take 


86      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

effect  from  April  i,  1862,  and  will  hereafter  be  obeyed 
and  respected  as  such  :    For 

First  Sergeant,  Thomas  Starkey, 

Second  Sergeant,  Michael  Kennedy. 

Third  Sergeant,  Joseph  Gahagan. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  William  Scully. 

Fifth  Sergeant,  Walter  Maloney. 

Quartermaster-Sergeant  Nathan  I.  Bennett  is  also  pro- 
moted acting  First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster  of  the 
regiment,  vice  Lieutenant  W.  W.  Harrall,  Quartermaster 
of  the  same,  resigned.  Sergeant  Wright,  of  Co.  I,  is 
promoted  Quartermaster-Sergeant,  vice  Bennett,  pro- 
moted, and  both  will  be  obeyed  and  respected  accord- 
ingly. 

Quartermaster  Bennett,  appointed,  will  be  subject  to 
the  confirmation  of  His  Excellency,  the  Governor  of  the 
State  of  Connecticut. 

First  Sergeant  Henry  McKenna,  of  Co.  C,  is  hereby 
appointed  Second  Lieutenant  of  the  same  company,  vice 
Second  Lieutenant  John  Shaw,  resigned.  The  date  of 
appointment  to  take  effect  from  April  I,  1862,  and  subject 
to  the  confirmation  of  His  Excellency,  the  Governor  of 
the  State  of  Connecticut,  and  will  be  obeyed  and  re- 
spected accordingly.  The  following  named  Sergeants  are 
also  appointed,  and  will  be  obeyed  and  respected  in  the 
same  order  in  which  they  stand :  For 

First  Sergeant,  Dennis  Gately. 

Second  Sergeant,  Patrick  Ingoldsby. 

Third  Sergeant,  Bryan  Donohue. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  Peter  Donnelly. 

Fifth  Sergeant,  James  Mullen. 

The  above  appointments  of  non-commissioned  officers 
to  date  from  April  I,  1862. 

Second  Sergeant  [J.  B.]  Prescott,  of  Co.  K,  is  ap- 
pointed First  Sergeant  of  Co.  F,  vice  First  Sergeant 
Ryan,  resigned. 

Second  Sergeant,  Timothy  Ryan. 

Third  Sergeant,  Fred  Jervis.     [Jewett?] 

Fourth  Sergeant,  Daniel  Leahy. 

who  will  be  obeyed  and  respected  accordingly.    The  date 
of  their  appointments  will  take  effect  from  April  I,  1862. 

*  *  *  Third  Sergeant  Tallmadge,  Co.  K,  is  also 
appointed  Second  Sergeant  in  the  same  company,  vice 
Prescott,  promoted  [to  be  First  Sergeant  of  Co.  F]. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865  87 

Gen.  Butler  tells  of  an  amusing  incident  that  happened 
while  the  Ninth  was  on  Ship  Island.  He  says,  in  sub- 
stance, that  one  day  a  detail  from  the  regiment  was  sent 
to  the  upper  portion  of  the  island  to  relieve  a  party  from 
the  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts,  which  was  engaged 
cutting  wood.  It  was  foggy  when  they  came  to  the  place 
of  meeting,  and  as  the  two  bodies  of  men  approached 
each  other  the  first  thought  was  that  they  must  be  Con- 
federates, each  party  seeming  so  to  the  other.  Both 
began  to  get  ready  for  a  fight,  when  a  quick-witted  Irish- 
man of  the  Ninth  exclaimed  : 

"Be  me  soul,  Captain,  I  believe  that  these  are  the 
Twenty-sixth's  boys.  Let  me  find  out;  I  will  give  the 
countersign !'' 

"The-  countersign?"  exclaimed  the  officer,  "What 
countersign  have  you?" 

"Oh,  aisy,  Captain!"  and  he  stepped  forth  and  cried 
out:  "Connecticut  over  the  fence!" 

The  men  on  both  sides  broke  out  into  roars  of  laughter, 
and  all  danger  of  a  collision  was  averted. 

On  the  morning  of  April  9,  1862,  Gen.  Butler  had 
issued  orders  for  a  grand  review  that  day,  of  all  the 
troops  on  the  island.  The  review  ground  was  located 
about  two  and  a  half  miles  from  the  fort,  and  "east  of  the 
line  of  camps  of  the  army."  Gen.  Butler  and  staff  occu- 
pied a  knoll  in  front  of  the  centre  of  the  line.  At  2  p.  m. 
the  troops  began  moving  forward  in  review.  The  line 
was  made  up  as  follows,  the  Ninth  having  the  place  of 
honor : 

FIRST  BRIGADE. 

BRIG.-GEN.  JOHN  W.  PHELPS. 

Ninth  Connecticut,  Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill. 
Twelfth  Connecticut,  Col.  Henry  C.  Deming. 
Eighth  New  Hampshire,  Col.  Hawkes  Fearing,  Jr. 
Fourth  Massachusetts  Battery,  Capt.  Charles  H.  Man- 
ning. 


88     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

First  Vermont  Battery,  Capt.  G.  W.  Duncan. 
Second  Vermont  Battery,  Capt.  P.  E.  Holcomb. 
Third  Company  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  Capt.  H.  A. 
Durivage. 

SECOND  BRIGADE. 

BRIG.-GEN.  THOMAS  WILLIAMS. 

Twenty-first  Indiana,  Col.  James  W.  McMillan. 
Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts,  Col.  Edward  F.  Jones. 
Thirty-first  Massachusetts,  Col.  Oliver  P.  Gooding. 
Sixth  Michigan,  Col.  Fred  W.  Curtenius. 
Fourth  Wisconsin,  Col.  H.  E.  Paine. 
Sixth  Massachusetts  Battery,  Capt.  Charles  Everett. 
Second  Company  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  Capt.  James 
Magee. 

THIRD  BRIGADE. 

COL.  GEORGE  F.  SHEPLEY  (TWELFTH  MAINE)  COM- 
MANDING. 

Twelfth  Maine,  Lieut.-Col.  W.  K.  Kimball. 
Thirteenth  Maine,  Col.  Neal  Dow. 
Fourteenth  Maine,  Col.  F.  S.  Nickerson. 
Fifteenth  Maine,  Col.  J.  McClusky. 
Thirtieth  Massachusetts,  Col.  N.  A.  M.  Dudley. 
First  Maine  Light  Battery,  Capt.  E.  P.  Thompson. 
First  Company  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  Capt.  S.  Tyler 
Reed. 

The  whole  force,  including  parts  of  the  Seventh  and 
Eighth  Vermont  regiments,  numbered  about  12,000  men. 
The  review  was  an  unqualified  success,  and  was  over  at 
4  p.  m.  This  review  was  considered  by  the  men  to  indi- 
cate that  an  important  movement  of  some  kind  was  about 
to  take  place,  and  so  it  proved. 

Gen.  Butler  issued,  on  April  10,  1862,  "General  Orders 
No.  9,"  providing  for  the  embarkation  of  troops,  for  the 
movement  against  New  Orleans.  They  were  to  embark 
the  next  day,  in  the  following  order: 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  89 

On  board  ship  Great  Republic:  the  Twenty-first 
Indiana,  Fourth  Wisconsin,  and  Sixth  Michigan,  regi- 
ments. 

On  board  steamer  Mississippi:  Twenty-sixth  and 
Thirty-first  Massachusetts  regiments,  Brown's  Sappers 
and  Miners  and  the  Sixth  Massachusetts  battery. 

On  steamer  Matcmzas:  the  Ninth  Connecticut  regi- 
ment and  the  Second  Vermont  battery. 

On  the  North  America:  the  Thirtieth  Massachusetts 
regiment,  Reed  and  Durivage's  Massachusetts  Cavalry, 
and  the  Fourth  Massachusetts  battery. 

On  ship  E.  Wilder  Farley:  the  Twelfth  Connecticut 
regiment. 

Each  regiment  was  ordered  to  "take  three  tents,  and 
the  detached  companies  of  cavalry,  artillery,  and  pioneers, 
one  tent  each.  The  remaining  tents  will  be  left  standing. 
The  troops  will  carry  their  camp  kettles,  mess  pans,  cups, 
plates,  knives  and  forks,  and  each  soldier  his  knapsack, 
overcoat,  blanket,  one  extra  shirt,  one  extra  pair  of 
drawers,  one  extra  pair  of  shoes,  canteens,  and  in  his 
haversack  four  days'  cooked  rations.  They  will  also  take 
all  the  axes,  hatchets,  picks,  shovels,  and  spades,  they 
may  have  in  possession.  Officers'  baggage  will  be  lim- 
ited to  bedding  and  one  valise,  bag  or  knapsack.  No 
trunks  in  any  case  to  be  taken.  The  remaining  baggage 
of  officers  and  men  will  be  properly  secured,  as  compactly 
as  possible,  marked,  and  turned  over  to  the  division 
quartermaster.  Captains  of  companies  will  be  held  re- 
sponsible that  every  soldier  has  in  his  cartridge  box  40 
rounds  of  ammunition.  The  troops  will  be  inspected  at 
6  p.  m.,  to-day,  to  see  that  this  order  has  been  complied 
with,  as  far  as  may  be  necessary  at  that  hour,  to  insure 
promptness  in  the  embarkation  to-morrow.  One  non- 
commissioned officer  for  each  regiment  will  be  left  behind 
to  turn  over  the  baggage,  tents,  etc.,  to  the  chief  quarter- 
master." 

The  next  day,  April  n,  a  storm    prevailed,  and    the 


9o      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL    INFANTRY. 

troops  did  not  embark.  They  did  begin  embarking,  how- 
ever, on  Tuesday  morning,  April  15.  "All  our  boys," 
writes  a  participant,  "seem  much  pleased  at  the  prospect 
of  a  change  of  scene,  and  active  service.  Still,  sweet  mem- 
ories of  the  island,  so  barren  and  desolate,  and  our  home 
for  132  days,  will  ever  remain  with  us.  Since  the  first 
troops  landed  on  this  island,  Dec.  4,  1861,  to  April  9,  last, 
fifty  men  have  died,  and  are  buried  there." 

Shortly  before  the  Ninth  left  Ship  Island,  Private 
Robert  Walsh  of  Company  E,  was  accidentally  killed, 
being  shot  through  the  heart.  He  belonged  in  New 
Haven,  and  was  a  good  soldier  and  comrade.  His  death 
was  much  regretted.  The  date  of  the  fatality  was  April 
14,  1862.  Private  Martin  Burke,  of  Company  B,  was 
injured  at  Ship  Island  in  February,  1862.  He  was  of 
Cheshire,  Ct.  He  recovered  from  his  injury  and  was 
mustered  out  Oct.  26,  1864,  his  term  of  service  having 
expired. 

The  embarkation  of  the  troops  was  completed  Wednes- 
day forenoon.  The  transport  fleet  hauled  out  at  4  p.  m., 
and  anchored  two  miles  off  shore  to  await  the  darkness, 
so  that  further  movements  would  be  covered.  The  troops 
aboard — 8,000  men — comprised  the  brigades  of  Generals 
Phelps  and  Williams.  Quarters  were  provided  aboard 
the  Mississippi  for  Gen.  Butler's  family,  and  the  steamer 
Saxon  was  headquarters  ship  for  Butler  and  his  staff. 
Gen.  Phelps  and  staff  had  quarters  aboard  the  Matanzas 
with  the  Ninth,  while  Gen.  Williams  and  staff  were  quar- 
tered aboard  the  Great  Republic.  The  Third  Brigade  re- 
mained on  the  island. 

That  night  between  8  and  9  o'clock,  the  fleet  weighed 
anchor  and  stood  out  to  sea.  The  steamer  Matanzas,  with 
the  Ninth  aboard,  was  towing  the  E.  Wilder  Farley;  the 
Mississippi  had  the  North  America  in  tow ;  and  the  gun- 
boat /.  P.  Jackson  had  the  Great  Republic.  The  course 
taken  was  a  little  south  of  west. 


CAPT.  MCH'L  MCCARTEN. 
CAPT.  T.  C.  COA-IES. 


CAPT.   WM.  WRIGHT. 
CAPT.   PATRICK  GARVEY. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

ARRIVAL    OF    THE    NINTH    AT    THE    SOUTH    WEST    PASS 

UNDER  FIRE  AT  THE  ATTACK  ON  FORTS  JACKSON  AND 

ST.    PHILIP ENTERS    THE    CITY    OF    NEW    ORLEANS 

PROCEEDS,   LATER,  TO  CAMP  PARAPET,  UP  THE  RIVER 

LEAVES    THERE    FOR    THE    CITY    OF    BATON    ROUGE, 

THE  CAPITAL  OF  LOUISIANA ENGLAND'S  ENMITY  TO 

THE  UNION. 

THE  trip  of  the  Matanzas,  with  the  Ninth  on  board,  to 
the  South  West  Pass,  was  devoid  of  special  inci- 
dent. The  steamer  continued  towing  the  E.  Wilder  Farley, 
on  which  was  the  Twelfth  Connecticut.  Thursday  morn- 
ing, April  17,  1862,  opened  clear  and  warm.  Officers  and 
men  of  the  Ninth  were  early  on  deck.  At  intervals,  ships 
of  the  Union  blockading  squadron  were  sighted,  while 
the  coast  line  could  be  dimly  seen  just  above  the  horizon. 
As  the  Matanzas  neared  the  Pass,  the  interest  of  those 
on  board  continued  to  increase.  The  gulf  coast  of  Louisi- 
ana is  not  remarkable  for  attractiveness,  but  on  this 
occasion  every  feature  was  noted  with  interest  by  the 
men  aboard  the  ships.  Arrived  at  the  Pass,  the  Ninth  had 
a  view  of  the  U.  S.  frigate  Colorado,  and  the  British 
frigate  Rinaldo,  anchored  there.  Entering  the  Missis- 
sippi, the  great  "Father  of  Waters,"  the  Ninth  beheld  a 
desolate  scene.  The  waters  of  the  mighty  river  are  of  a 
yellowish  hue  which  they  assume  after  their  confluence 
with  the  Missouri.  This  hue  is  caused  by  the  mud 
brought  down  in  such  great  volume  that  it  tinges  the 
fierce  current  of  the  river  for  several  miles  out  into  the 
Gulf.  The  bed  of  the  Mississippi,  near  its  mouth,  is  con- 
tinually changing  in  character,  forming  new  bars  that 
puzzle  and  menace  the  pilots.  It  was  these  bars  that  so 
retarded  Farragut  in  getting  his  big  ships  into  the  river, 


92      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

and  it  was  only  after  transferring  the  heavy  batteries 
from  the  ships  to  lighters  that  he  at  length  succeeded. 

Crowded  conditions  prevailed  aboard  the  Matanzas. 
Only  260  men  could  be  accommodated  below  decks  at  a 
time  and,  therefore,  the  men  had  to  sleep  by  reliefs,  that 
is,  a  part  at  a  time.  On  one  occasion,  the  Matanzas  took 
the  Great  Republic  in  tow,  the  latter  being  helpless  owing 
to  the  loss  of  her  rudder. 

Sixty  miles  below  New  Orleans,  then  held  by  the  rebels, 
and  toward  the  mouth  of  the  river,  were  Forts  Jackson 
and  St.  Philip,  strongly  constructed  and  heavily  armed  by 
the  Confederates,  for  the  defence  of  the  city.  The  rebels 
considered  them  impregnable,  and  believed  they  would 
prove  an  impassable  barrier  to  any  Union  force  attempt- 
ing to  come  up  the  river  from  below.  But  in  this  they 
were  mistaken,  as  the  result  proved.  Some  twenty-two 
miles  below  the  forts,  just  mentioned,  were  the  heads  of 
the  five  passes  of  the  Mississippi  through  which  access 
could  be  had  to  the  gulf.  These  passes  were  the  South 
West,  the  South,  the  South  East,  the  North  East  and 
Pass  a  la  Outre.  The  largest  and  most  utilized  of  these 
was  the  South  West. 

As  the  Ninth,  aboard  the  steamer  Matanzas,  proceeded 
up  the  river,  by  way  of  the  South  West  Pass,  the  men 
gazed  upon  the  neighboring  shores. 

"  Do  you  know  of  the  dreary  land, 

If  land  such  region  may  seem, 
Where  'tis  neither  sea  nor  strand, 
Ocean,  nor  good,  dry  land, 

But  the  nightmare  marsh  of  a  dream? 
Where  the  Mighty  River  his  death-road  takes, 
'Mid  pools  and  windings  that  coil  like  snakes, 
A  hundred  leagues  of  bayous  and  lakes, 

To  die  in  the  great  Gulf  Stream?" 

Pilot  Town,  a  cluster  of  houses,  was  noted  about  two 
miles  from  the  mouth  of  the  river,  and  elicited  much  com- 
ment. The  houses  were  all  built  on  piles  to  keep  them 
clear  of  the  river.  Here  resided  gulf  and  river  pilots, 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  93 

from  whom  the  place  derived  its  name.  Nearby,  stood  a 
tower,  75  or  100  feet  high,  used  by  the  pilots  for  keeping 
a  watch  on  the  river  and  gulf  in  search  of  vessels  needing 
their  services.  A  naval  hospital  was  also  located  at  this 
point.  Anchored  near  Pilot  Town  were  the  barque 
A  Imo  and  the  gunboat  Miami.  The  Ninth  continued  up 
the  river  toward  the  head  of  the  passes  already  mentioned. 
Not  long  after,  could  be  heard  the  boom  of  the  heavy 
guns  of  Farragut's  fleet,  including  the  mortars  of  Porter's 
flotilla,  in  their  bombardment  of  Forts  Jackson  and  St. 
Philip.  A  member  of  the  Ninth,  writing,  after  the  war,  of 
this  period,  says: 

«  *  *  *  The  £actS}  j  believe,  are  these:  Gen. 
Phelps  being  on  board  the  Matanzas  with  the  Ninth  was 
extremely  anxious  to  witness  the  bombardment  of  the 
forts  and,  pushing  by  Gen.  Butler,  moved  up  in  their 
direction.  Soon  a  solid  shot  came  skipping  across  the 
bow  of  the  Matanzas. 

''  'Col.  Cahill,  what  do  you  suppose  they're  firing  for?' 
facetiously  inquired  the  General. 

'  'I  don't  know,  sir !'  replied  the  Colonel  in  the  same 
vein. 

"  'Nor  I,  either!'  rejoined  the  General.    'Go  on!' 

"Butler  is  reported  to  have  been  very  much  offended 
at  this  action,  but  Phelps  witnessed  the  fighting  and 
enjoyed  it  like  the  veteran  soldier  that  he  was." 

Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  of  the  Ninth,  writes :  "While 
we  were  on  board  the  Matanzas,  the  latter  was  employed 
in  towing  many  of  the  sailing  vessels  close  up  to  the 
fleet.  Two  of  Porter's  mortar  schooners  were  taken  in 
tow  by  us  after  they  had  been  disabled  by  the  guns  of 
the  forts.  The  Matanzas  was  twice  under  the  fire  of  both 
forts,  and  while  we  were  making  fast  to  the  disabled 
mortar  schooners,  shots  from  the  forts  passed  clear  over 
the  deck  of  our  steamer.  A  large  heavy  chain  which  had 
been  stretched  across  the  river  between  the  forts  was  cut 
in  two  by  sailors  of  the  fleet,  and  on  April  23  Farragut 


94     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

was  all  ready  to  run  his  fleet  past  the  forts.  As  each  vessel 
passed  us.,  we  knew  that  the  great  and  final  effort  was 
about  to  take  place.  Darkness  came  on,  but  there  was 
no  sleep  for  soldier  or  sailor  that  eventful  night.  A  red 
light  had  been  hoisted  at  the  masthead  of  the  Hartford, 
Farragut's  flagship.  The  forts  commenced  firing  after 
midnight,  and  continued  for  some  time.  We,  of  the 
Ninth,  could  see  the  answering  flames  of  fire  from  the 
sides  of  our  fleet,  the  whole  making  an  almost  continuous 
blaze  of  light.  We  knew  when  our  friends  were  past  the 
forts  by  the  flash  and  noise  from  above.  In  the  morning, 
we  were  ordered  to  sail  with  the  transports  around  to  the 
rear  of  Fort  St.  Philip,  and  one  regiment, — the  Twenty- 
sixth  Massachusetts — reached  the  river  bank  above.  We 
were  preparing  to  attack  the  "forts  when  the  latter  sur- 
rendered. *  *  *  We  were  then  ordered  to  return  on 
board  our  vessels,  and  sailed  up  to  New  Orleans." 

So  confident  were  the  Confederates  in  the  strength  of 
the  two  forts  that  a  New  Orleans  paper  declared :  "We 
have  made  such  extensive  preparations  to  receive  them, 
[the  Union  forces],  that  it  were  vexatious  if  their  invinci- 
ble armada  escapes  the  fate  we  have  in  store  for  it." 
Farragut's  force  comprised  47  armed  vessels.  The 
mortar  boats,  under  Porter,  took  the  lead,  and  on  April 
1 8,  began  the  attack  on  Fort  Jackson,  and  were  sup- 
ported by  the  gunboats.  The  forts  were  not  at  first  much 
affected  by  this  attack,  and  it  was  decided  to  run  by  them 
on  the  night  of  the  23d.  It  was  a  perilous  undertaking. 
The  night  was  an  intensely  dark  one,  and  at  2  o'clock  in 
the  morning  the  daring  passage  began. 

"  Right  abreast  of  the  Fort 

In  an  awful  shroud  they  lay, 

Broadsides  thundering  away, 
And  lightning  from  every  port; 

Scene  of  glory  and  dread ! 
A  storm-cloud  all  aglow 

With  flashes  of  fiery  red, 
The  thunder  raging  below, 

And  the  forest  of  flags  overhead !" 


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In  addition  to  the  opposition  of  the  forts,  Farragut  also 
had  to  contend  with  a  Confederate  naval  force,  but  was 
victorious  against  every  odd.  While  the  movement  was 
in  progress,  Butler  landed  his  troops  and  got  them 
around  to  the  rear  of  Fort  St.  Philip,  thus  bringing  about 
a  prompt  surrender  of  that  stronghold. 

As  soon  as  the  news  of  the  Confederate  disaster 
reached  New  Orleans,. a  great  panic  ensued  there.  Peo- 
ple fled  from  the  city,  cotton  was  got  ready  to  be  set  on 
fire,  some  $4,000,000  in  specie  was  removed  from  the 
banks,  and  other  steps  hastily  taken.  Upon  the  approach, 
April  25,  of  Farragut,  Gen.  Lovell,  the  rebel  com- 
mander, and  his  forces  deserted  the  city,  the  torch  was 
applied  to  cotton  on  the  levee  and  15,000  bales  were 
burned;  also  a  large  number  of  steamers,  uncompleted 
gunboats  and  other  vessels.  Farragut  kept  the  city  under 
the  guns  of  his  fleet  until  May  i,  when  Gen.  Butler  took 
possession.  The  loss  of  New  Orleans  was  a  staggering 
blow  to  the  rebels.  Fort  St.  Philip  had  a  record  as  a 
place  of  defence,  previous  to  the  construction  of  Fort 
Jackson.  It  was  Fort  St.  Philip  that,  in  the  war  of 
1812-15,  held  an  English  naval  force  at  bay  for  over  a 
week  and  at  last  obliged  it  to  retire  down  the  river. 

An  exciting  incident  took  place  early  on  the  morning 
of  April  27.  A  spectator  thus  describes  it :  "At  3  a.  m. 
everybody  on  board  was  aroused  from  his  sleep,  in  a 
hurry,  and  rushed  on  deck  to  ascertain  the  cause.  Look- 
ing up  the  river,  we  saw  a  large  raft  loaded  with  all  sorts 
of  combustible  material  coming  down,  whirling  and 
twisting  with  the  current.  It  had  been  sent  down  by  the 
rebels  and  was  only  about  three  miles  above  us,  and  the 
glare  sent  up  by  this  mass  of  burning  stuff  lighted  up 
the  surrounding  country  with  the  brightness  of  day.  As 
it  swept  swiftly  down,  we  could  see  that  the  raft  was 
about  200  feet  long  by  about  50  in  width.  It  was  piled 
high  with  what  seemed  to  be  pitch  pine,  and  sent  up 
smoke  and  flame  to  a  height  of  about  40  feet.  When  the 


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raft  was  less  than  a  mile  from  the  line  of  gunboats,  the 
Jackson  slipped  out  and,  under  a  full  head  of  steam, 
dashed  at  the  raft,  striking  it  amidships  and  scattering 
the  fire  in  all  directions  into  the  river.  Lines  were  then 
hitched  to  the  raft  and,  being  towed  to  the  west  bank,  it 
was  grounded  and  allowed  to  burn  itself  out." 

Passing  up  the  river  toward  New  Orleans,  a  soldier  thus 
records  what  he  saw :  "Some  time  after  leaving  Quaran- 
tine, the  scenery  on  both  banks  of  the  river  began  to 
change.  In  place  of  low,  swampy  lands,  beautiful  planta- 
tions began  to  appear.  We  saw  people  working  in  the 
fields,  riding  in  carriages  on  the  roads  behind  the  levee, 
beautiful  villas  nestling  in  groves  of  fine  trees.  *  *  * 
Some  of  the  plantations  that  we  passed  seemed  deserted, 
as  nobody  could  be  seen.  At  one  plantation,  we  saw 
about  50  negroes  at  work  on  what  seemed  to  be  sugar 
cane.  All  hands,  even  the  overseer,  stopped  in  their  work 
to  gaze  at  the  Yankees.  At  intervals  we  passed  a  house 
upon  which  the  white  flag  appeared.  Again,  we  would 
pass  a  house  which  displayed  a  small  flag — the  Stars  and 
Stripes — at  door  or  window.  Whenever  this  happened, 
there  was  tremendous  cheering  on  board.  About  4  p.  m. 
we  were  up  with  a  fine  plantation,  located  on  the  east 
bank.  The  owner's  residence,  a  beautiful  white  house 
with  broad  verandas  about  it,  and  embowered  in  a  fine 
grove  of  trees,  was  thrown  open  and  the  verandas  were 
occupied  by  the  family.  As  we  passed  it,  we  were  greeted 
with  handkerchief  waving,  and,  suddenly,  out  of  the  front 
door,  appeared  the  Stars  and  Stripes.  Our  troops  yelled, 
their  delight  was  so  great  at  this  incident."  At  Chalmette, 
some  miles  below  New  Orleans,  the  rebels  had  con- 
structed two  batteries,  one  on  each  side  of  the  river,  but 
the  guns  of  Farragut's  ships  easily  knocked  them  to 
pieces.  Another  battery  about  a  mile  above  Chalmette 
experienced  a  like  fate. 

Upon  taking  possession  of  New  Orleans,  Gen.  Butler 
established  his  headquarters  at  the  St.  Charles  Hotel. 


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Nearby  was  posted  the  Sixth  Massachusetts  battery  and 
other  troops.  The  populace  was  in  an  ugly  mood  and 
soon  after  his  arrival,  Butler  decided  to  parade  a  regiment 
through  the  city  as  an  object  lesson.  He  selected  the 
Ninth  Connecticut,  then  quartered  at  the  Reading  Cotton 
Press,  for  this  purpose,  an  honor  the  regiment  duly  ap- 
preciated. The  command  made  a  fine  showing,  and  the 
effect  on  the  belligerent  populace  was  a  salutary  one. 

While  the  Ninth  was  in  New  Orleans,  at  this  time,  Pri- 
vate Mark  O'Neil,  of  Company  D,  while  taking  a  walk 
in  the  city  on  the  evening  of  May  4,  1862,  was  attacked 
and  assassinated  by  thugs.  He  was  in  uniform  at  the 
time,,  and  alone.  When  information  of  the  murderous 
happening  reached  the  quarters  of  the  Ninth,  the  men  of 
the  latter  became  furious  and  evinced  a  desire  to  rush  out 
and  wreak  vengeance  for  the  loss  of  their  comrade.  They 
were  finally  quieted,  however,  by  their  officers.  Private 
O'Neil  belonged  in  New  Haven  and  had  enlisted  Sept. 
27,  1861. 

When  Butler  took  possession  of  the  city  he  was 
confronted  by  many  serious  difficulties.  The  populace 
was  sullen  and,  though  not  openly  hostile,  found  many 
ways  in  which  to  show  their  dislike  for  the  new-comers. 
Butler,  however,  was  fully  equal  to  the  situation,  as  he 
abundantly  demonstrated.  Among  the  Confederate  or- 
ganizations in  the  city  had  been  one  known  as  the 
"Foreign  Legion,"  which  was  promptly  put  out  of  ser- 
vice upon  Butler's  arrival. 

England's  enmity  to  the  Union  was  well  known,  hav- 
ing been  frequently  displayed  during  the  war.  The 
Croffut-Morris  work,  speaking  of  the  organization  of  the 
Thirteenth  Connecticut,  recalls  that  "England  was  just 
beginning  to  take  sides  with  the  Confederates;  so  the 
mustering-officer,  in  addition  to  the  usual  oath,  bound 
the  men  to  serve  'against  England  or  any  foreign  power 
that  may  wage  war  against  us.' ' 

In  New  Orleans  at  the  time  of  Butler's  advent  was  a 


98      NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Confederate  military  company,  composed  of  Englishmen. 
Parton,  the  historian,  speaking  of  this  company,  says : 
"The  British  Guard  consisted  of  fifty  or  sixty  English- 
men, old  residents  of  New  Orleans,  many  of  them  men  of 
large  property  and  extensive  business.  On  returning  to 
their  armory,  late  in  the  evening,  after  the  disbanding  of 
the  Foreign  Legion,  they  had  held  a  formal  meeting,  at 
which  it  was  voted  to  send  their  arms,  accoutrements, 
and  uniforms  to  the  camp  of  General  Beauregard.  On 
learning  this,  a  few  days  after  the  occupation  of  the  city,- 
General  Butler  sent  for  Captain  Burrows,  the  commander 
of  the  company,  who  confessed  the  fact.  The  general 
then  directed  him  to  order  his  company  to  leave  New 
Orleans  within  twenty-four  hours ;  and  declared  his  in- 
tention to  arrest  and  confine  in  Fort  Jackson  any  who 
should  fail  to  obey  the  order.  The  violation  of  the  law 
of  neutrality  had  been  clear  and  indefensible.  These  men 
had  enjoyed  for  many  years  the  protection  of  the  United 
States  government,  under  which  they  acquired  wealth 
and  distinction,  and  then  embraced  the  first  opportunity 
that  had  offered  to  give  material  aid  to  its  enemies." 

This  action  by  Gen.  Butler,  as  might  be  expected, 
called  forth  an  exhibition  of  brazen  effrontery  from  the 
acting  British  consul,  who  unblushingly  declared  that  the 
enforcement  of  the  order  would  "infringe  the  rights  of 
British  subjects  residing  in  New  Orleans." 

But  Butler  replied:  "I  intend  this  order  to  be  strictly 
enforced.  I  am  content  for  the  present  to  suffer  open 
enemies  to  remain  in  the  city  of  their  nativity ;  but  law- 
defying  and  treacherous  alien  enemies  shall  not." 

The  order  was  enforced.  Every  member  of  the  Eng- 
lish company  got  out  of  New  Orleans,  except  the  Cap- 
tain and  another,  who  soon  found  themselves  incarcer- 
ated in  Fort  Jackson. 

On  another  occasion  an  Englishman  had  boasted  that 
he  had  challenged  a  Union  officer  to  a  duel,  but  that  the 
latter  had  cowardly  avoided  the  encounter.  Butler  heard 


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of  the  Englishman's  boast  and  sent  for  him.  After  get- 
ting him  to  admit  that  he  had  lied  when  he  made  the 
boast,  and  that  the  latter  had  no  basis  in  fact,  Butler  re- 
quested him  to  sign  a  paper  to  that  effect.  But  the 
Englishman  refused,  saying  in  substance: 

"You  may  fill  my  head  with  bullets,  but  I  will  never 
sign  that  paper!" 

"Very  well,"  nonchalantly  replied  Butler,  and,  turning 
to  an  officer,  remarked :  "Arrange  to  have  the  prisoner 
executed  at  sunrise.  I  am  going  to  dinner." 

And  forthwith,  the  General  left  the  apartment.  He 
was  gone  but  a  short  time,  when  a  messenger  came  run- 
ning up  to  him  with  the  information  that  the  Englishman 
had  signed.  So  the  latter's  life  was  spared. 

Speaking  of  the  Trent  case,  and  the  Slidell-Mason 
affair,  Boynton's  History  of  the  Navy  During  the  Re- 
bellion remarks  that:  "Almost  as  simultaneously  as  the 
telegraph  could  flash  the  account  over  the  Kingdom, 
Great  Britain  blazed  with  excitement,  and  the  real  spirit 
of  England  was  fully  revealed.  The  feelings  of  hostility 
toward  the  North,  which  had  been  partially  held  in  check 
for  decency's  sake,  had  now  found  an  occasion  and  an 
excuse,  if  not  a  proper  cause.  It  showed,  in  a  manner 
that  American  statesmen  would  be  wise  to>  remember, 
even  when  it  is  forgiven,  how,  beneath  all  the  friendly 
manifestations  which  lie  on  the  surface,  the  old  feeling  of 
dislike  and  even  animosity  toward  our  country  remains 
in  the  heart  of  England,  so  that  a  very  slight  cause  will 
kindle  it  into  a  flame  that  will  burn  with  all  its  former 
intensity  of  passion.  England  may  respect  us,  may  de- 
sire and  seek  our  friendship ;  but  while  she  remains  as 
she  now  is,  a  country  of  classes,  she  cannot  be  a  sincere 
and  hearty  friend." 

Gen.  Butler  once  expressed  his  opinion  that  we  made 
a  mistake  in  not  accepting  England's  challenge  at  that 
time,  even  with  civil  war  on  our  hand.  "England  of  her 
own  soldiers,"  said  he,  "has  never  had  more  than  twenty- 


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five  thousand  men  on  any  one  battle-field.  The  time  has 
gone  past  for  buying  Germans  to  fight  her  battles.  We 
had  more  soldiers  starve  at  Andersonville  than  England 
had  men  at  Waterloo' — and  a  large  part  of  those  at 
Waterloo  were  commanded  by  an  Irishman.  *  *  * 
Ninety  days  would  have  enlisted  Irishmen  enough  to 
take  Canada.  *  *  *  When  patriotic  Irishmen  began 
to  learn  that  there  was  a  chance  for  war  with  England, 
they  came  to  me  in  squads.  And  if  I  had  said  to  them : 
''Yes,  I  want  you  to  march  to  Canada  and  take  that  first, 
and  then  for  the  western  coast  of  Ireland,  or  against  any 
Englishmen  we  can  find  against  us  down  South,'  I 
could  have  filled  up  not  only  one  or  two  regiments  in 
Massachusetts,  but  eight  or  ten." 

Lossing,  referring  to  England's  sympathy  for  the 
South,  observes  that  "The  Confederates  organized  a  navy 
department,  and  gave  places  to  the  officers  who  had  de- 
serted the  National  flag ;  but  their  means  for  the  creation 
of  a  marine  force  were  insignificant.  So  they  looked  to 
Europe  for  aid,  and,  in  the  greed  of  England  for  the 
'supremacy  of  the  seas,'  they  found  a  steadfast  friend  and 
a  helper.  The  first  formidable  pirate  ship  put  afloat  was 
the  Sumter,  Capt.  Semmes,  whose  destructive  career  was 
ended  at  the  close  of  1861.  Meanwhile,  arrangements 
were  made  by  the  Confederates  with  Laird,  a  member  of 
the  British  Parliament  and  a  ship-builder,  at  Liverpool, 
to  construct  several  powerful  steamships  for  their  use. 
The  Oreto  (afterward  Florida)  was  soon  at  sea,  and,  in 
September,  1862,  she  ran  the  blockade  at  Mobile  under 
English  colors.  She  went  to  sea  again  in  December,  and 
made  havoc  among  American  merchantmen.  She  was 
never  again  in  a  Confederate  port,  but  always  found  a 
welcome  in  British  colonial  harbors. 

"Semmes  was  soon  in  command  of  a  powerful  vessel, 
built  by  Laird,  called  the  Alabama.  She  was  essentially 
a  British  pirate  ship,  with  a  Confederate  commander  and 
flag ;  and  she  fulfilled  the  expectations  of  the  British  ship- 


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ping  interest,  by  frightening  American  commerce  into 
British  vessels,  and  giving  them  a  monopoly  of  the  carry- 
ing trade.  She  always  avoided  our  national  vessels  sent 
after  her.  She  was  finally  blockaded  in  the  French  port 
of  Cherbourg,  by  the  Kearsarge,  Captain  Winslow.  The 
French  Government  ordered  the  pirate  to  leave  their 
waters.  She  went  out  on  the  I5th  of  June,  1864,  met  the 
Kearsarge,  and,  after  a  short  conflict,  was  sent  to  the  bot- 
tom of  the  sea.  Tier  commander  and  others  were  picked 
up  by  an  English  vessel  in  attendance,  which  carried 
them  to  England  to  save  them  from  their  conqueror." 

The  Alabama,  says  Lossing,  "was  built,  armed,  and 
furnished  in  England,  and  almost  wholly  manned  by  Brit- 
ish subjects,  several  of  them  from  the  Royal  navy.  She 
sailed  out  of  England  under  a  British  flag,  and  was 
always  welcomed  into  British  ports.  And  before  she 
went  into  battle  with  the  Kearsarge,  her  commander,  in  a 
little  speech  to  her  officers  and  crew,  repeated  the  words 
of  Lord  Nelson,  'England  expects  every  man  to  do  his 
duty!'  She  was  not  allowed  to  carry  her  prizes  into 
British  ports,  and  so  her  commander  generally  plundered 
and  burnt  them  at  sea.  The  Alabama  captured  and  de- 
stroyed 64  American  vessels."  The  estimated  value  of 
property  destroyed  by  the  pirate  was  $10,000,000. 

The  Rev.  Frederic  Denison,  in  his  History  of  The  Third 
Rhode  Island,  states  that:  "However  others  may,  we  cer- 
tainly never  shall  forget  how,  through  English  sympa- 
thy and  English  capital,  the  slaveholders'  Rebellion  was 
encouraged  and  strengthened  and  prolonged.  *  *  * 
We  were  obliged  to  contend  with  English  sentiments  and 
English  guns.  After  due  consideration  we  have  cred- 
ited the  toil,  treasure  and  blood  of  the  last  two  years  of 
the  war  to  England — a  heavy  account  certainly.  *  *  * 
As  John  Bull  selfishly,  if  not  madly,  gored  us  in  the  hour 
of  our  calamity  and  affliction,  we  shall  claim  the  right  of 
remembering  our  wounds  in  the  years  of  our  prosperity." 

The  Ninth  remained  in  New  Orleans  but  a  few  days, 


102     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTR  Y. 

at  this  time,  being  then  transferred  to  Camp  Parapet, 
about  seven  miles  above  the  city.  This  fortified  camp 
had  constituted  one  of  the  defences  of  New  Orleans,  and 
comprised  fine  earthworks,  some  two  and  a  half  miles  in 
length.  The  rebels  had  mounted  twenty-nine  guns  in 
the  place. 

During  the  stay  of  the  Ninth  in  New  Orleans,  it  was 
thus  referred  to,  May  3,  1862,  by  the  Evening  Delta  of 
that  city :  "A  regiment  of  soldiers  this  morning  took  up 
their  line  of  march,  apparently  towards  the  Jackson  Rail- 
road station.  The  crowd  that  followed  them  was  much 
larger  than  any  wre  have  yet  seen  upon  the  streets  upon 
any  similar  occasion.  We  think  that  this  idle  curiosity 
displayed  by  our  citizens  has  had  sufficient  vent,  and  it  is 
high  time  that  orderly  people  were  betaking  themselves 
to  indoor  amusements.  If  they  have  nothing  to  do,  let 
them  stay  at  home,  avoid  the  sun,  and  preserve  their 
health."  From  which,  the  temper  of  the  Delta  could  be 
readily  judged. 

Corporal  Peabody  of  the  Fourth  Massachusetts  battery, 
already  quoted,  writes  in  his  diary,  under  date  of  May  5, 
1862:  "Monday.  Weather  clear  and  hot.  *  *  * 
After  dinner  an  up-river  movement  began.  The  Ninth 
and  Twelfth  Connecticut,  except  one  company  of  the 
Ninth,  embarked  on  the  steamship  Mississippi,  and, 
about  2  p.  m.,  sailed  for  Carrollton,  some  miles  north  of 
the  city.  Shortly  after  the  departure  of  the  big  steam- 
ship, the  river  steamer  Diana  hauled  into  Pier  17  [New 
Orleans],  and  taking  on  the  baggage  and  guard  of  the 
troops  just  gone,  cast  loose  about  4  p.  m.,  and  proceeded 
up-river.  About  4.30  o'clock,  the  river  steamer  Ceres 
hauled  into  Pier  17  to  take  on  board  our  battery.  De- 
positing knapsacks,  haversacks  and  canteens  on  the  mid- 
dle deck,  we  returned  to  the  pier  and  began  loading 
battery;  this  work  we  completed  about  6  p.  m.  At  6.15, 
lines  were  cast  loose  and  we  started  up-river.  We  had 
a  fine  view  of  the  river  up  and  down  for  several  miles. 


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*  *  *  All  along  the  levee  in  the  city,  were  river 
steamers,  some  partially  burned  and  many  others  burned 
to  the  water's  edge.  *  *  *  About  7  p.  m.,  we  passed 
the  beautiful  town  of  Carrollton,  on  the  east  bank  of  the 
river,  and  about  five  miles  above  New  Orleans.  Fifteen 
or  twenty  minutes  later,  we  reached  Camp  Parapet,  two 
miles  above  Carrollton.  *  *  *  Here  we  found  the 
Mississippi,  anchored  out  in  the  river,  and  the  Diana  at 
the  levee  and  tied  up.  The  Ceres  also  hauled  into  the 
levee  at  the  stern  of  the  Diana  and  made  fast  for  the 
night." 

The  next  morning,  May  6,  1862,  the  Diana  was  busily 
engaged  transferring  the  Ninth  and  Twelfth  Connecticut 
regiments  from  the  Mississippi  to  the  shore.  The  Fourth 
Massachusetts  Light  Battery  landed  from  the  Ceres.  By 
noon,  nearly  all  the  property  of  the  Ninth  regiment  was 
on  shore.  The  troops,  numbering  about  2,000  men,  went 
into  camp,  the  line  being  made  up  as  follows,  from  right 
to  left :  The  Ninth  Connecticut  on  the  extreme  right  on 
the  low  ground  toward  the  Matarie  Ridge  road.  Then 
came,  in  line,  the  Third  section  of  the  Massachusetts  bat- 
tery, under  Lieut.  Taylor;  the  Second  section,  under 
Lieut.  Davidson ;  the  Twelfth  Connecticut  regiment ;  and 
then  the  First  section  of  the  battery.  This  section  was 
located  in  a  charming  orange  grove.  The  entire  force 
was  commanded  by  Gen.  Phelps,  who  had  established  his 
headquarters  in  the  rear  of  the  Twelfth  Connecticut. 
Gen.  Phelps'  staff  was  made  up  as  follows :  First  Lieut. 
Alfred  G.  Hall,  Ninth  Connecticut,  A.  D.  C,  and  acting 
assistant  adjutant-general;  Surgeon  William  B.Brownell, 
Twelfth  Connecticut,  medical  director;  First  Lieut. 
Erwin  U.  N.  Hitchcock,  Seventh  Vermont,  A.  D.  C. ; 
First  Lieut.  Frank  Wells,  Thirteenth  Connecticut,  quar- 
termaster and  commissary ;  First  Lieut.  George  W.  Pot- 
ter, Twelfth  Connecticut,  provost  marshal. 

The  fortifications  of  Camp  Parapet  extended  from  the 
river  to  a  point  in  the  swamps  between  Matarie  Ridge 


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road  and  Lake  Ponchartrain.  The  rebel  garrison  had 
consisted  of  Louisiana  troops.  Across  the  river  on  the 
west  bank  the  enemy  had  also  constructed  a  redoubt, 
mounting  six  guns.  Previous  to  vacating  Camp  Para- 
pet, they  had  dismounted  and  spiked  the  guns  and 
thrown  fifteen  of  them  into  the  river.  The  gun  carriages 
had  been  set  on  fire,  and  the  platforms  and  traverses 
smashed.  A  huge  raft  had  previously  been  constructed, 
and  stretched  across  the  river  as  an  adjunct  to  the  fortifi- 
cations to  prevent  Davis'  fleet  and  Halleck's  troops  from 
getting  by  from  above.  But  the  Federal  forces  had  at- 
tacked the  rebels  in  the  rear  and  compelled  them  to 
abandon  the  works. 

The  location  of  the  Ninth  at  Camp  Parapet  was  less 
desirable  than  the  ground  occupied  by  the  other  organi- 
zations, but  the  men  made  the  best  of  their  surroundings 
and  improved  their  quarters  as  much  as  circumstances 
would  permit.  The  -;;ater  of  the  Mississippi  was  gener- 
ally used  for  Ashing  and  cooking  purposes,  and  though 
yellow  ;  „  nue,  it  was  found  to  be  clean  and  quite  cold. 
Tiie  Ninth  had  a  good  view  of  vessels  going  up  or  down 
the  river,  and  this  added  variety  to  the  scene.  On  the 
afternoon  of  May  7,  the  steamer  Diana,  which  had  gone 
down  to  New  Orleans,  returned,  bringing  Weitzel's  com- 
pany of  Pioneers  to  camp.  There  was  already  consid- 
able  sickness  at  Camp  Parapet,  and  the  chief  trouble 
being  diarrhoea,  attributed  largely  to  the  river  water. 
On  Sunday  afternoon,  May  18,  Gen.  Butler  and  his  staff 
passed  through  the  camp. 

Capt.  Michael  McCarten,  of  Co.  C,  of  the  Ninth,  had 
resigned  April  15,  1862.  He  was  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar officers  in  the  regiment,  and  his  departure  was  very 
generally  regretted.  He  resigned  on  account  of  the 
serious  illness  of  his  wife,  her  physician  expressing  the 
opinion  that  if  the  captain  did  not  soon  return  home  she 
would  not  live.  Capt.  McCarten  felt  very  badly  over  this 
piece  of  information,  and  received  much  sympathy  from 


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his  brother  officers.  He  wrote  out  his  resignation  and 
tendered  it.  After  some  difficulty,  it  was  accepted,  and 
he  made  preparations  to  leave.  This  was  shortly  before 
the  Ninth  left  Ship  Island  for  the  South  West  Pass. 

Lieut.  John  G.  Healy,  of  the  Ninth,  had  been  pro- 
moted in  April,  and  succeeded  Capt.  McCarten,  as  cap- 
tain of  Co.  C,  of  the  regiment.  While  at  Camp  Parapet, 
in  May,  Capt.  Healy  was  ordered  to  take  a  detail  and 
proceed  to  the  Court  House  in  Carrollton.  Information 
had  been  received  that  some  boxes  of  arms  and  ammu- 
nition had  been  stored  in  the  Court  House,  by  the  enemy, 
and  Capt.  Healy  was  directed  to  get  possession  of  these. 
He  accordingly  selected  fourteen  men  and  marched  to 
the  place,  entered  the  village,  and,  followed  by  a  large 
crowd,  proceeded  to  the  building  just  mentioned.  Ar- 
riving at  the  Court  House,  he  posted  a  guard  to  keep 
back  the  crowd,  and  then  entered  the  building.  A  thor- 
ough search  was  made,  but  nothing  in  the  line  of  war 
material  was  found,  save  a  number  of  empty  musket 
boxes.  Capt.  Healy  next  visited  the  jail  to  ascertain  the 
number  of  prisoners.  He  found  twenty-three  confined 
there,  but  as  none  had  been  locked  up  for  political  of- 
fences, he  did  not  release  any.  Capt.  Healy  discovered 
two  men  in  the  village  with  loaded  muskets.  He  took 
these  muskets  away  from  them,  and  let  the  two  men  go. 

Corporal  Michael  P.  Coen,  of  Company  F,  of  the 
Ninth,  writing  home  to  Waterbury,  from  Camp  Parapet, 
May  24,  1862,  informs  his  relatives  that  "We  have  got  a 
full  suit  of  new  clothes  here  now,  of  a  style  similar  to 
those  of  Gen.  Thomas  Francis  Meagher's  Irish  Brigade, 
— sky  blue  overcoats,  dark  blue  or  black  dresscoats,  blue 
trousers  with  a  green  stripe,  high  black  dress  hats  with  a 
pair  of  green  tassels,  a  green  scarf  of  silk  around  the 
waist,  besides  our  belts,"  etc. 

On  May  21,  1862,  Adjutant  Alfred  G.  Hall,  of  the 
Ninth,  who  was  then  acting  assistant  adjutant-general 
on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Phelps,  started  for  Lake  Ponchar- 


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train,  accompanied  by  Corporal  W.  M.  Peabody  of  the 
Fourth  Massachusetts  Light  Battery.  They  set  out  on 
horseback  at  7  a.  m.,  and  reached  the  lake  about  two 
hours  later.  The  scenery  at  this  point  was  beautiful,  and 
the  place  had  been  a  popular  Summer  resort.  Lake 
Ponchartrain  is  some  forty  miles  long  by  twenty-five 
miles  in  width,  forming  a  magnificent  sheet  of  water. 
Here  Adjutant  Hall  and  Corporal  Peabody  separated, 
the  former  embarking  for  Ship  Island,  and  the  Corporal 
returning  to  Camp  Parapet  with  the  horses.  The  Fif- 
teenth Maine  regiment  landed  at  Camp  Parapet  May  31. 

The  same  day,  the  Ninth  Connecticut  began  embark- 
ing at  10  a.  m.,  enroute  to  Baton  Rouge.  The  regiment 
and  its  camp  equipage  was  all  aboard  about  4  p.  m.,  lines 
were  cast  off  and  the  two  steamers  conveying  the  Ninth 
and  its  appurtenances  headed  up  the  river. 

Baton  Rouge  is  about  123  miles  above  where  Camp 
Parapet  was  located.  A  good  idea  of  the  scenes  along 
the  route  is  given  by  a  soldier,  who  went  up  the  river 
some  weeks  after  the  Ninth.  He  says  :  "About  6  a.  m., 
passed  Kenner,  a  small  town  on  the  east  bank  of  the 
river,  eleven  miles  above  Camp  Parapet.  About  2  p.  m., 
we  were  up  with  the  beautiful  town  of  Donaldsonville,  on 
the  west  bank,  fifty-four  miles  by  river  from  Camp  Para- 
pet. All  the  way  to  this  point  we  had  seen  fine  planta- 
tions, but  about  this  vicinity  the  scenery  was  magnificent, 
surpassing  anything  we  had  heretofore  witnessed  on  the 
river.  All  nature  is  smiling  on  magnificent  fields  of  cot- 
ton and  sugar  cane,  while  the  white  villas  of  the  planters, 
snugly  ensconced  among  fine  and  cool-looking  groves, 
and  the  plantation  hands,  working  in  the  fields,  would 
almost  lead  one  to  believe  that  profound  peace  reigned 
in  the  land.  But  after  a  glance  inboard,  the  sight  of  a 
i2-pounder  cannon  looking  you  in  the  face  changes  your 
thoughts."  Baton  Rouge  is  located  on  the  east  bank  of 
the  river,  and  was  then  a  place  of  some  7,000  people,  and 
the  capital  of  the  State  of  Louisiana.  It  is  built  mainly 


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on  a  bluff,  the  latter  extending  from  a  point  about  ten 
miles  below  the  city  to  Port  Hudson,  many  miles  above. 
The  capitol  building,  or  State  House,  was  quite  an  im- 
posing structure,  with  handsome  grounds.  The  building 
had  been  set  on  fire  by  the  enemy,  on  the  approach  of 
the  Union  forces,  and  badly  damaged.  Brig.-Gen. 
Thomas  Williams  took  possession  of  the  city,  for  the 
Union,  May  10,  1862.  At  the  time  the  Ninth  arrived  in 
Baton  Rouge,  there  were  two  churches  there,  a  Catholic 
and  a  Presbyterian.  The  former  was  built  of  brick,  in 
Gothic  style.  A  rectory  adjoined  it,  and,  as  was  stated 
at  the  time,  "the  reverend  father  is  at  home  to  all  visit- 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

THE  NINTH'S  HEAVY  LOSSES  NEAR  VICKSBURG,  MISS.— 
GREAT  SUFFERING  WHILE  AT  WORK  ON  THE  "CUT- 
OFF"  CANAL THE  BATTLE  OF  BATON  ROUGE COL. 

CAHILL   OF   THE    NINTH    ASSUMES    COMMAND    OF   THE 

UNION   FORCES   ON  THE   DEATH   OF  GEN.  WILLIAMS 

HIS    OFFICIAL    REPORT    OF    THE    ENGAGEMENT THE 

REBELS  ARE  DEFEATED. 

THE  city  of  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  located  at  a  bend  on 
the  east  side  of  the  Mississippi,  above  Baton 
Rogue,  La.,  had  been  strongly  fortified  by  the  rebels. 
It  commanded  the  river  at  that  point  and  blockaded  navi- 
gation up  and  down.  Heavy  batteries  had  been  erected 
on  the  bluffs  overlooking  the  river. 

The  Union  commanders  decided  to  reopen  navigation 
by  cutting  a  canal  across  the  peninsular  at  Vicksburg, 
thus  changing  the  course  of  the  river,  isolating  the  city 
and  enabling  the  Union  forces  to  avoid  the  batteries  of 
the  enemy. 

The  Ninth  Connecticut  was  a  part  of  the  expeditionary 
force,  under  Gen.  Wiliams,  for  this  purpose.  Under  date 
of  Baton  Rouge,  June  17,  1862,  Col.  Cahill  issued  a  regi- 
mental order  to  the  Ninth,  covering  the  embarkation  of 
the  command.  This  order  provided  that  the  latter 
should  go  aboard  as  follows: 

On  the  steamer  Diana:  the  Field  and  Staff;  Band  and 
Field  Music;  Company  D,  Company  E,  Company  F, 
Company  I. 

On  steamer  Burton:  Company  B,  Company  C,  Com- 
pany G ;  Capt.  Wright  of  Company  G,  to  be  in  command. 

On  steamer  Sallie  Robinson:  Company  A,  Company  K, 
Company  H  ;  Capt.  Sawyer  of  Company  H,  to  be  in  com- 
mand. 


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Says  the  Croff tit-Morris  work :  "Coming  in  sight  of 
batteries  which  the  rebels  had  posted  here  and  there  to 
command  the  river,  the  infantry  would  go  ashore  and 
attack  by  land  on  the  flank,  driving  the  enemy  from  the 
position,  and  enabling  the  fleet  to  pass  up.  The  Ninth 
was  several  times  engaged  in  these  operations,  and  ren- 
dered much  service.  The  vessels  went  to  the  very  guns 
of  Vicksburg,  when  the  brigade  was  landed  on  the  west 
side  of  the  river,  and  advanced  to  Young's  Station,  oppo- 
site the  city. 

"Here  Commodore  Farragut  had  already  arrived,  and 
had  set  large  numbers  of  soldiers  and  negroes  at  work 
digging  the  famous  canal  for  a  new  channel  of  the  river ; 
and  the  regiment  of  Williams'  brigade  at  once  joined 
enthusiastically  in  the  excavation  for  the  cut-off.  Col. 
Cahill  of  the  Ninth  was  the  ranking  colonel,  and  com- 
manded in  the  absence  of  Gen.  Williams. 

"Here  the  Ninth  again  suffered  greatly.  There  was 
nothing  to  eat  for  weeks  but  pork  and  hard-tack;  no 
water  to  drink  but  the  muddy  water  of  the  Mississippi. 
The  swamp  reeked  with  malaria,  and  the  men  slept  upon 
the  mud.  The  supply  of  quinine,  that  panacea  for  all 
the  soldier's  aches  and  ills,  was  exausted;  there  was 
little  medicine  of  any  sort.  Requisitions  were  sent  as 
far  as  New  Orleans ;  but  the  medical  Dogberry  declined 
to  honor  them  on  the  ground  of  'irregularity.'  Almost 
the  whole  of  the  Ninth  regiment  was  at  one  time  on  the 
sick-list  with  fever  caused  by  exposure  and  privation. 
The  poor  fellows  died  sometimes  at  the  fearful  rate  of 
a  score  a  week;  and  out  of  the  *  *  *  Connecticut 
members  present,  the  state  catalogue  of  troops  shows 
that  one  hundred  and  fifty-three  died  during  this  season, 
— a  mortality  not  equalled  by  any  other  of  our  regiments 
within  a  similar  period. 

"After  a  month  of  this  deadly  service,  the  engineers 
discovered  that  the  water  was  falling  and  would  not  flow 
through  their  canal;  and  the  work  was  abandoned. 


no   NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Williams'  brigade  returned  down  the  river  again  about 
the  ist  of  August;  Breckinridge  pursuing  along  the 
shore.  On  the  boat  Algerine  left  behind  were  three 
hundred  sick,  in  charge  of  Surgeon  Gallagher  of  the 
Ninth.  *  *  *  " 

One  of  the  Ninth's  officers,  in  a  brief  sketch  of  the 
regiment  some  years  ago,  speaking  of  the  period  of 
which  we  are  treating,  states  that  "In  June  the  Ninth 
joined  the  expeditionary  corps  under  Gen.  Thomas  Wil- 
liams, for  the  destruction  of  'Camp  Moore.'  From  this 
place  the  regiment  went  to  a  point  on  the  Missis- 
sippi river  opposite  Vicksburg,  and  on  June  25th  was 
put  to  work,  with  other  regiments,  in  cutting  the  famous 
canal  which  was  expected  to  isolate  Vicksburg  by  divert- 
ing the  river  away  from  its  wharves  and  rendering  them 
unapproachable  to  shipping.  During  the  continuance  of 
this  work,  a  force  of  twenty  picked  men,  under  Capt. 
Healy  and  Lieutenant  Patrick  T.  Claffee,  [both  of  Co. 
C.],  was  crossed  over  the  river  under  cover  of  darkness, 
and  remained  in  the  swamp  under  the  guns  of  Vicks- 
burg for  eight  days.  The  work  was  finally  abandoned 
as  not  feasible,  though  not  until  the  Ninth  had  suffered 
severe  loss  from  the  terrible  exposure  of  the  men." 

Col.  Cahill,  of  the  Ninth,  wrote:  "When  Gen.  Wil- 
liams prepared  to  go  up  the  river,  I  was  taken  from  Gen. 
J.  W.  Phelps'  command,  then  at  Camp  Parapet,  and 
ordered  to  report  to  Gen.  Williams  and  with  him  occu- 
pied Baton  Rogue ;  made  the  summer  campaign  of  1862 
up  the  river,  landing  at  Grand  Gulf  and  other  points,  driv- 
ing the  enemy  from  his  works,  and  went  into  position 
before  Vicksburg,  acting  in  connection  with  Admiral 
Farragut  in  the  first  siege  of  that  place." 

"Early  in  June,"  writes  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  "the 
Ninth  went  on  an  expedition  to  West  Baton  Rouge  and 
spent  two  days  on  the  plantation  of  Col.  Allen  (Con- 
federate). We  returned  to  Baton  Rouge,  and  June  18, 
started  on  the  expedition  to  Vicksburg.  Our  steamers 


CAI>T.  LAWRENCE  O'BRIKN. 


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would  travel  by  day,  and  put  into  shore  for  the  night. 
On  June  24,  we  landed  below  Ellis  Cliffs,  to  attack  a 
battery  which  annoyed  our  boats  as  they  passed.  On  our 
approach,  the  enemy  ran  away  and  we  went  in  pursuit, 
bent  upon  capturing  the  battery.  The  march  in  the  heat 
was  very  distressing  upon  all  engaged.  Next  day  we 
went  up  Bayou  Pierre  and  marched  around  to  the  rear 
of  Grand  Gulf,  a  place  the  enemy  had  fortified,  but  here, 
also,  he  decamped,  going  on  a  train.  We  got  sight  of 
the  train  and  would  have  captured  it,  but  for  the  over- 
caution  of  the  General  in  halting  more  than  an  hour  on 
the  appearance  of  a  small  body  of  the  enemy's  cavalry. 
The  latter  had  been  surprised  while  foraging  on  a  plan- 
tation which  was  well  stocked.  These  cavalrymen 
quickly  decamped. 

"While  we  were  waiting,  Nims'  battery  furnished 
amusement,  racing  with  the  horses  and  mules  of  the 
plantation.  The  men  had  the  most  difficulty  after  mount- 
ing the  mules  to  stay  on  their  backs.  It  was  midday 
and  the  sun  was  intensely  hot,  but  the  colored  people 
were  of  great  service  to  us,  helping  to  get  good  drinking 
water.  The  march  was  a  circuit  of  fifteen  miles,  the  most 
part  being  through  wild  cane  fields  and  we  were  very 
tired  when  we  reached  Grand  Gulf.  It  was  night,  and 
when  all  our  people  were  on  board,  the  town  was  set  on 
fire  and  as  we  left  it,  the  blaze  lighted  up  the  country  for 
miles." 

Speaking  of  the  Ninth's  heavy  loss  by  disease  at  Vicks- 
burg,  Capt.  O'Brien  states :  "We  could  not  give  a  funeral 
escort  to  the  dead ;  the  few  who  were  able  to  do  guard 
and  picket  duty  could  not  attend  to  any  extra  duty. 
Gen.  Williams  was  not  in  sympathy  with  his  men.  He 
exacted  the  most  rigid  discipline.  Notwithstanding  the 
great  amount  of  sickness  prevailing,  he  ordered  the 
brigade  to  parade  every  day,  in  marching  order,  with 
knapsacks  packed.  I  saw  men  drop  out  of  the  line 
exhausted,  and  when  we  returned  many  of  them  would 


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be  dead.  This  drill  and  parading  was  done  when  the 
thermometer  registered  no  to  115  in  the  shade." 

The  Ninth  lost  a  valuable  officer,  July  21,  1862,  by  the 
death  of  First  Lieut.  Frederick  M.  Fairchild  of  Bridge- 
port. He  belonged  to  Company  K,  and  had  enlisted 
into  the  regiment  Feb.  18,  1862.  He  had  previously 
been  first  sergeant  of  Company  H,  First  Connecticut 
regiment. 

The  Fourth  Massachusetts  Light  Battery  did  not 
accompany  the  Ninth  regiment  to  Vicksburg,  but 
remained  with  other  organizations  at  Baton  Rouge.  We 
quote  from  the  diary  of  Corporal  Peabody.  Writing 
under  date  of  July  26,  1862,  he  says :  "Saturday.  At  a 
very  early  hour  this  morning,  the  expedition  commanded 
by  Gen.  Williams  arrived  from  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  on  the 
steamers  Sallie  Robinson,  Diana,  Louisiana  Belle,  and  N. 
Burton.  The  troops  that  came  down  on  these  steamers 
were  the  Seventh  Vermont,  Ninth  Connecticut,  Thirtieth 
Massachusetts  and  Fourth  Wisconsin  regiments,  the  Sec- 
ond Massachusetts  battery  and  two  sections  of  the  Sixth 
Massachusetts  battery.  About  6  o'clock,  these  troops 
began  disembarking  and  moved  to  their  respective  camps. 
Officers  and  men  all  look  as  if  they  had  seen  hard  service, 
and  many  of  them  are  sick  from  disease  contracted  while 
digging  the  cut-off  on  the  point  of  land  opposite  Vicks- 
burg. Between  n  and  12  a.  m.,  Farragut's  fleet  arrived 
down  from  the  same  place  and  anchored  in  the  river  in 
front  of  the  city.  This  strong  reinforcement  to  this  gar- 
rison, causes  considerable  excitement  among  the  popu- 
lation of  the  city,  who  have  been  on  the  streets  from  an 
early  hour  this  morning  watching  every  move  of  our 
troops.  Teams  have  been  driving  through  the  streets 
all  day,  conveying  to  the  different  camps  the  equipage 
of  the  troops  just  arrived.  To-night  our  troops  are  dis- 
tributed as  follows:  The  Sixth  Michigan,  Fourth  Wis- 
consin, Ninth  Connecticut,  and  Fourteenth  Maine  regi- 
ments occupy  the  barracks.  The  Thirtieth  Massachu- 


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setts  regiment  occupies  the  State  Capitol.  The  Twenty- 
first  Indiana  and  Seventh  Vermont  regiments,  with  the 
Second  and  Sixth  Massachusetts  batteries  and  Magee's 
Massachusetts  cavalry,  are  encamped  near  Magnolia 
cemetery.  Gen.  Williams  has  re-occupied  the  comman- 
dant's house  at  the  arsenal  and  has  assumed  command  of 
the  post. 

"July  31,  [1862],  *  *  *  The  troops  arrived 
promptly,  [at  the  race  course,  Baton  Rouge],  and  line 
being  formed  at  once,  at  7  a.  m.  we  moved  forward  in 
review.  The  troops  in  line,  from  right  to  left,  were  the 
Sixth  Michigan,  Fourth  Wisconsin,  Twenty-first  Indi- 
ana, Ninth  Connecticut,  Seventh  Vermont,  Fourteenth 
Maine,  and  Thirtieth  Massachusetts  regiments ;  the  Sec- 
ond, Fourth,  and  Sixth  Massachusetts  batteries ;  also  a 
section  of  small  guns  attached  to  the  Twenty-first  Indi- 
ana regiment,  manned  by  their  own  men  under  the  com- 
mand of  Second  Lieut.  James  H.  Brown,  of  Company 
F ;  and  Magee's  company  of  Massachusetts  cavalry. 
Review  ended,  inspection  followed,  this  duty  being  per- 
formed by  Gen.  Williams,  most  thoroughly.  *  *  * 

"August  i,  Friday.  Day  opened  fine.  At  5  a.  m., 
battery  harnessed  and  marched  to  the  race-course  for 
drill  and  inspection.  The  regiments  turned  out  in  small 
force  this  morning.  Not  a  regiment  of  infantry  present 
with  over  200  men,  the  Fourth  Wisconsin  being  the 
smallest,  numbering  60  men.  Two  sections  represent  the 
Second  Massachusetts,  and  one  section  the  Sixth  Massa- 
chusetts, battery.  *  *  * 

"August  2.  Saturday.  Morning  came  in  pleasant. 
At  5  a.  m.,  battery  *  *  *  marched  to  the  race-course 
for  inspection  and  drill.  Passed  the  Fourth  Wisconsin, 
Sixth  Michigan  and  Ninth  Connecticut  marching  out. 
These  regiments  turn  out  a  small  number  of  men  this 
morning,  owing  to  the  prevalence  of  sickness.  Arriving 
on  the  ground  promptly  on  time,  we  found  Gen.  Williams 
and  staff  already  there.  Line  was  quickly  formed,  the 

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n4  NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

review  was  of  short  duration  and  then  inspection  was 
held.  Inspection  over,  the  troops  were  drilled  in  vari- 
ous evolutions  under  the  eye  of  the  General,  until  7  a.  m., 
when  all  were  dismissed  to  camp.  *  *  *  Sickness 
among  the  troops  here  is  very  prevalent  and  several 
soldiers  die  each  day.  Nearly  one-half  of  this  garrison 
is  in  the  hands  of  surgeons.  Rumors  fill  the  air  that 
a  force  of  rebels,  from  7,000  to  10,000  strong,  is  advanc- 
ing from  Camp  Moore,  to  attack  this  post.  Should  the 
rumors  prove  true  and  the  'Jonnnies'  capture  us,  they 
will  not  only  get  the  troops,  but  $2,000,000  of  govern- 
ment property.  Gen.  Williams  is  expecting  something 
as  he  keeps  out  on  all  roads  strong  scouting  parties. 
In  order  to  be  prepared  for  all  emergencies,  the 
Thirtieth  Massachusetts  regiment,  350  men,  was  ordered 
from  the  State  House  this  p.  m.,  to  a  camp  in  the  sub- 
urbs. In  the  barracks,  the  troops  are  held  in  readiness 
to  move  in  a  moment.  Such  is  the  vigilance  of  our  post 
commander. 

"August  4.  Monday.  Troops  called  to  arms  at  I 
o'clock  this  morning.  *  *  *  Under  arms  until  sun- 
rise, but  no  enemy  appearing  the  line  was  dismissed.  *  * 
*  At  sunset  a  negro  came  in  and  reported  to  Gen.  Wil- 
liams that  a  force  of  the  enemy,  about  8,000  strong,  was 
encamped  at  Corinth  bridge,  on  the  Clinton  road,  ten 
miles  from  the  city,  and  would  surely  attack  his  troops 
in  the  morning.  To-night  the  weather  is  fine,  Every- 
thing is  perfectly  quiet  about  our  lines  and  in  the  city. 
There  is  no  excitement  among  our  soldiers,  although 
most  all  are  expecting  to  be  attacked,  within  a  few  hours, 
by  a  force  almost  three  times  our  strength.  Of  about 
5,000  troops  here,  nearly  one-half  are  in  the  hospitals. 
To  assist  us  in  the  coming  battle  we  have  three  gun- 
boats. *  *  *  » 

The  Confederate  force  to  attack  Baton  Rouge  was 
commanded  by  Major  Gen.  John  C.  Breckenridge,  of 
Kentucky,  who  had  been  vice-president  of  the  United 


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States.  His  force  was  divided  into  two  divisions,,  the 
first  being  commanded  by  Brig.  Gen.  Charles  Clark,  of 
Mississippi,  and  the  second  by  Brig.  Gen.  Daniel  Rug- 
gles,  "a  renegade  native  of  Massachusetts  and  an  old 
army  officer."  The  Confederate  troops  comprised  regi- 
ments from  Alabama,  Mississippi,  Kentucky,  Tennessee 
and  Louisiana.  They  left  Camp  Moore,  eighty  miles 
away,  July  29,  1862,  and  advanced  to  the  attack.  Aug. 
4,  they  arrived  at  Corinth  bridge,  ten  miles  away. 

At  daylight  on  the  morning  of  Aug.  5,  1862,  the  battle 
of  Baton  Rouge  began.  Gen.  Williams  was  killed  during 
the  engagement  and  the  command  of  the  Union  forces 
thereupon  devolved  on  Col.  Cahill  of  the  Ninth,  Lieut. 
Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gibbon  commanding  the  regiment. 
The  following  is  Col.  Cahill's  official  report  of  the  bat- 
tle: 

BATON  ROUGE,  August  9,  1862. 

To  Captain  R.  J.  Davis,  A.  A.  General,  Department  of  the 
Gulf:— 

SIR — Being  called  to  the  command  of  the  force  at 
Baton  Rouge,  on  the  occasion  of  the  action  August  5, 
by  the  unfortunate  death  of  General  Williams,  it  becomes 
my  duty  to  report  the  circumstances  of  the  glorious  vic- 
tory. Rumors  of  the  advance  of  the  enemy  in  heavy  force 
had  prevailed  for  some  days.  On  the  afternoon  of  August 
4,  General  Williams  called  the  attention  of  the  comman- 
dants of  regiments  and  batteries  to  the  probability  of  an 
attack  at  an  early  hour  in  the  morning.  The  Fourteenth 
Maine,  Col.  A.  Nickerson ;  the  Twenty-first  Indiana, 
under  Lieut.  Col.  Keith ;  the  Sixth  Michigan,  under  Act- 
ing Lieut.  Col.  Clark;  and  the  Seventh  Vermont,  Col. 
Roberts,  were  encamped,  the  first  with  its  right  resting 
on  the  intersection  of  the  Greenwell  Springs  road,  and 
fronting  on  a  road  running  to  the  intersection  of  the 
Bayou  Sara  and  Clinton  roads.  These  encampments  were 
in  heavy  timber.  The  Twenty-first  Indiana  were  encamped 
on  about  the  same  line  front,  and  on  the  right  of  the 
Greenwell  Springs  road.  On  nearly  the  same  line  front, 
but  still  further  to  the  right,  at  the  intersection  of  the 
Clay  Cut  and  Perkins  roads,  were  the  Sixth  Michigan. 


n6   NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

The  Seventh  Vermont  were  some  distance  to  the  rear, 
and  between  the  Sixth  Michigan  and  Twenty-first  Indi- 
ana, with  the  camp  fronting  the  city.  Everett's  battery, 
under  Lieut.  Carruth,  was  in  bivouac,  on  the  right  of  the 
Fourteenth  Maine,  and  on  the  right  of  the  Twenty-first 
Indiana.  Still  further  to  the  right  were  the  guns  in  charge 
of  the  Twenty-first  Indiana.  On  the  extreme  right,  the 
guns  of  Nims'  battery,  under  Lieut.  —  — ,  were  brought 
into  position  early  in  the  action  on  the  right.  The  Thir- 
tieth Massachusetts,  under  Colonel  Dudley,  were 
brought  up  from  their  quarters  in  the  Capitol  on  the  night 
of  the  4th,  and  took  position  on  the  left  of  the  Sixth 
Michigan.  On  the  extreme  left,  in  advance  of  the  left 
bank  of  the  Bayou  Gap,  with  an  oblique  front  towards 
the  intersection  of  the  Bayou  Sara  and  Clinton  roads,  with 
two  pieces  of  Manning's  battery,  were  the  Ninth  Con- 
necticut and  Fourth  Wisconsin.  The  remaining  guns  of 
Manning's  battery  were  in  position  on  the  right  bank 
of  the  bed  of  Bayou  Gap.  This  was  the  real  line  of  de- 
fence for  the  left  flank,  covering  the  north  and  east  of  the 
arsenal  grounds.  General  Williams,  in  his  instructions 
to  myself  and  Lieut.  Col.  Bean,  commanding  4th  Wis- 
consin Volunteers,  was  very  clear  and  positive  in  his  or- 
ders to  hold  this  position  at  all  hazards,  as  he  anticipated 
the  enemy  would  advance  (under  cover  of  the  fire  from 
the  ram  Arkansas,  with  the  gunboats  from  the  Red  river), 
through  the  open  grounds  of  the  Sawmill  and  Dough- 
erty's Plantation,  and  take  possession  of  the  Manae 
ground.  The  above  mentioned  advance  on  the  left  bank 
of  the  Bayou  was  only  ordered  by  General  Williams, 
after  a  lengthy  consideration,  on  the  evening  of  the  4th 
instant,  with  the  intention  of  checking  an  advance  on  the 
same  position  by  the  Bayou  Sara  and  Clinton  roads ;  and 
for  that  reason  we  only  brought  forward  the  light  how- 
itzers of  Manning's  battery  to  the  advance  positions, 
leaving  the  heavy  guns  on  the  original  line. 

At  early  daylight  on  the  morning  of  August  5,  the 
enemy  threw  his  whole  force  on  the  camps  of  the  Four- 
teenth Maine,  Twenty-first  Indiana  and  Sixth  Michigan, 
with  the  batteries  attached  to  each  regiment.  These 
troops  stood  their  ground  nobly,  meeting  the  tremendous 
force  thrown  upon  them  with  unflinching  bravery.  On 
looking  over  the  battle  ground  since  the  engagement,  I 
cannot  conceive  how  it  was  possible  for  so  many  men  to 


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have  been  engaged  in  so  small  a  space  of  ground.  The 
attack  was  nearly  simultaneous ;  but  the  first  fire  in  line 
from  the  enemy's  right  was  directed  on  the  Fourteenth 
Maine,  and  was  instantly  answered  by  that  regiment  by  a 
solid  line  volley,  which  must  have  done  terrible  execution. 
The  companies  of  the  Twenty-first  Indiana,  which  were  in 
the  advance  as  pickets,  had  fallen  back  in  order.  The  whole 
regiment  advanced  toward  the  Magnolia  cemetery,  and 
east  of  it.  At  this  time  Major  Hayes  was  seriously 
wounded,  and  was  taken  from  the  field.  The  regiment 
worked,  advancing  and  retiring,  and  changing  front 
as  the  enemy  showed  himself  through  the  smoke.  At 
nearly  the  close  of  the  action  Lieutenant  Colonel  Keith, 
commanding  the  regiment,  had  to  leave  the  field,  badly 
wounded,  leaving  the  regiment,  without  a  field  officer, 
in  command  of  Capt.  Grimsey.  It  was  at  this  stage  of 
the  battle  that  General  Williams  fell,  mortally  wounded. 
He  had  just  said  to  the  men  of  the  Twenty-first,  "Boys, 
your  field  officers  are  all  gone.  I  will  lead  you."  The 
men  answered  with  three  cheers  for  the  General.  The 
sounds  had  scarcely  died  away  when  he  fell.  The  General 
had  previously  issued  an  order  for  the  line  to  fall 
back,  and  the  artillery  having  done  so  the  regiments 
retired  in  good  order  to  the  positions  now  oc- 
cupied. For  details  of  movements  and  conduct  of  the 
regiments  and  batteries,  I  would  refer  you  to  the  accom- 
panying reports.  I  will  only  trespass  on  the  patience  of 
the  commanding  General  further  to  say  what  the  offi- 
cers commanding  regiments  and  corps  cannot  say  for 
themselves — that  more  undaunted  bravery,  coolness  and 
skill,  in  the  handling  of  their  commands,  has  not  been 
displayed  on  any  battle  field  than  on  that  of  Baton  Rouge 
and  that,  too,  by  officers  who  never  before  handled  troops 
in  a  fight.  From  the  2ist  Indiana  and  6th  Michigan 
myself,  in  common  with  others,  expected  a  great  deal, 
and  were  not  disappointed,  but  when  I  look  back  a  few 
short  months,  and  bring  to  my  mind  the  arrival  of  the 
I4th  Maine  at  Ship  Island,  and  to-day  consider  the  work 
done  by  that  regiment  in  the  action,  the  smoothness  and 
steadiness  of  its  evolutions  on  difficult  ground  and  under 
fire  from  the  veterans  of  the  Confederate  service,  I  can 
only  say  that,  for  his  efforts  in  building  up  his  regiment, 
the  most  serious  task  of  a  commander,  and  his  conduct 
in  the  field,  Col.  Nickerson,  of  the  I4th  Maine,  deserves 


1 1 8     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTR  Y. 

the  highest  praise.  To  the  impetuous  Lt.  Col.  Keith,  of 
the  2 ist  Indiana,  no  words  of  mine  can  do  justice.  He 
was  everywhere,  in  every  place,  working  his  men  through 
tents,  trees  and  underbrush  like  a  veteran,  and  when  seri- 
ously wounded  and  [about  to  be]  taken  from  the  field  he 
would  not  give  up,  but  moved  around  among  his  officers 
and  men,  counselling  and  assisting  in  everything,  to  the 
injury  and  irritation  of  his  wounds.  Col.  Roberts,  of  the 
7th  Vermont,  fell  mortally  wounded,  and  has  since  died. 
He  was  a  gentleman  of  a  generous  nature  and  of  culti- 
vated mind. 

Col.  Nickerson,  of  the  I4th  Maine,  had  his  horse  shot 
from  under  him  by  a  discharge  of  grape.  He  sprang 
from  under  his  dying  steed,  and  waving  his  sword,  called 
upon  his  men  for  one  more  charge.  The  men  sprang 
forward,  with  three  roaring  cheers,  and  drove  back  the 
advancing  foe.  At  this  time  the  gallant  Captain  French, 
of  Company  K,  i4th  Maine,  received  his  terrible  wound. 
The  charge  was  made  in  the  presence  of  Gen.  Williams, 
who  complimented  the  men  very  highly.  Captain  French 
was  placed  on  board  the  unfortunate  steamer  Whitman, 
and  was  lost  when  she  went  down.  His  name  deserves 
special  mention.  The  conduct  of  the  officers  and  men  of 
the  several  batteries  was  everything  that  could  be  looked 
for  by  the  commanding  General.  The  various  batteries 
were  very  much  reduced  by  sickness  and  deaths,  and, 
even  with  the  assistance  of  details  from  the  infantry,  were 
worked  short-handed.  Lieutenant  Hall,  in  command  of 
the  second  piece  of  Nims'  battery,  wishes  special  mention 
made  of  the  successful  rally  by  men  of  the  Twenty-first 
Indiana  and  three  men  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut,  who, 
with  the  assistance  of  Private  Tyler,  who  left  his  sick  bed 
and  acted  as  sergeant,  gunner,  etc.,  and  Privates  Shield 
and  Clogston,  as  also  Sergeant  Cheever,  who  left  the 
hospital  sick  to  do  his  duty,  rallied  and  brought  off  the 
gun,  when  every  man  and  horse  was  shot  down  and  the 
piece  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  The  names  of  the  pri- 
vates of  infantry  engaged  in  this  gallant  exploit  will  be 
forwarded  as  soon  as  ascertained.  The  Ninth  Connecti- 
cut and  Fourth  Wisconsin  Volunteers  were  brought  up 
from  their  position  early  in  the  action,  and  were  placed, 
by  General  Williams'  order,  in  line  across  the  grounds  of 
the  Orphan  asylum,  immediately  in  rear  of  the  camps 
of  the  Twenty-first  Indiana  and  Fourteenth  Maine.  The 


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regiments  moved  with   alacrity  and   obeyed   all   orders 
promptly. 

Captain  Silas  W.  Sawyer,  of  Company  H,  Ninth  regi- 
ment, Connecticut  Volunteers,  deserves  mention  for  his 
bold  reconnoissance  on  the  morning  of  the  6th.  Going 
out  on  the  Bayou  Sara  road  three  miles,  and  finding  no 
trace  of  the  presence  of  the  enemy,  he  took  a  cattle  path 
through  the  woods,  coming  out  on  the  Clinton  road  be- 
yond the  original  line  of  our  pickets.  He  scoured  the 
country  to  Reed's  plantation,  in  scouting  around  which 
he  found  one  of  the  enemy's  caissons,  near  by  another, 
and  in  a  short  time  he  discovered  all  four.  Crossing  over 
to  Bernard's  plantation,  he  found  another  and  a  damaged 
ambulance.  Returning  to  headquarters,  he  proceeded, 
by  order  of  Colonel  Paine,  commanding  a  detachment  of 
men  and  horses  from  Manning's  battery,  and  a  platoon 
of  his  own  company,  and  brought  them  in.  In  conclu- 
sion I  would  beg  leave  to  call  the  attention  of  the  General 
commanding  to  the  services  of  Lieut.  Henry  H.  Elliott, 
Ninth  New  York  Volunteers,  lieutenant  and  acting  as- 
sistant adjutant  on  General  Williams'  staff.  Of  his  cool- 
ness and  intrepidity  in  action  every  officer  in  the  action 
can  bear  witness,  as  also  to  the  still  more  trying  duties 
of  the  details  of  his  official  business.  I  am  under  deep 
obligations  to  him  for  his  cheerful  and  zealous  services 
for  the  time  I  remained  in  command.  I  enclose  copies  of 
correspondence  between  myself  and  Lieut.  Elliott.  Col- 
onel McMillan,  of  the  Twenty-first  Indiana,  has  been  un- 
well for  some  time.  His  counsel  and  advice  have  been 
freely  offered  on  every  occasion.  All  of  which  is  respect- 
fully submitted. 

THOMAS  W.  CAHILL, 

Colonel  Commanding  at  Baton  Rouge. 

The  loss  of  the  Ninth  in  this  engagement  was  i  killed, 
9  wounded,  and  4  missing — 14.  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon, 
who  commanded  the  Ninth  during  the  conflict,  made  a 
report  to  Adjutant  General  J.  D.  Williams,  of  Connecti- 
cut, of  the  part  taken  by  the  regiment  in  the  battle.  This 
report  is  dated  "Baton  Rouge,  La.,  Aug.  Qth,  1862,"  and 
reads  as  follows : 


120    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

"In  accordance  with  General  Orders  No.  2,  I  herewith 
submit  my  report  ot  the  engagement  of  the  5th  inst. 
About  three  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  5th  inst.,  the 
9th  Regiment  Conn.  Vols.,  according  to  previous  instruc- 
tions, marched  under  command  of  Col.  Cahill,  and  took 
position  on  the  left  of  the  line  of  the  defence,  the  4th 
Wisconsin  on  the  left,  and  two  howitzers  of  Manning's 
4th  Massachusetts  battery  on  the  right  of  the  Qth  Con- 
necticut. 

"The  position  assigned  was  one  admirably  calculated 
for  military  movements,  being  situated  on  a  hill  overlook- 
ing the  'Bayou  Gros,'  and  about  half  way  between  the 
river  and  'Bayou  Sara.'  About  four  o'clock  picket  firing 
was  heard  on  the  right,  followed  immediately  by  heavy 
volleys  of  musketry  and  discharges  of  artillery.  The  posi- 
tion of  the  enemy  could  be  determined  only  from  the 
firing,  owing  to  a  heavy  fog.  As  the  centre  was  the  prin- 
cipal point  of  attack,  this  regiment  and  the  battery  was 
moved  to  its  support.  To  complete  this  manoeuvre,  this 
regiment  marched  along  the  'North  road'  until  it  came 
within  range  of  the  enemy's  guns,  when  it  filed  across  the 
road  in  the  midst  of  a  shower  of  grape  and  canister,  and 
formed  in  line  of  battle  in  a  corn-field,  the  battery  open- 
ing fire  from  the  road.  The  enemy  at  this  juncture  ap- 
peared directly  in  front,  yelling  and  firing  volleys  of 
musketry,  which,  however,  did  but  little  damage,  the  shot 
mostly  going  over  us,  owing  to  the  proximity  of  the 
enemy,  who-  on  delivering  his  fire  fell  back.  The  left  flank 
being  exposed  we  were  ordered  to  its  defence,  and  the 
regiment  resumed  its  first  position,  which  it  retained  the 
remainder  of  the  day  and  night. 

"Major  Frye,  having  been  sent  to  the  right  for  orders, 
returned  with  the  sad  intelligence  of  the  death  of  General 
Williams,  when  Col.  Cahill,  being  senior  officer  present, 
assumed  command  of  the  brigade.  By  his  order,  Col. 
Nickerson,  of  the  I4th  Maine,  took  command  of  the  left 
wing,  including  this  regiment.  Receiving  information 


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that  our  left  was  about  to  be  attacked,  Everett's  battery 
was  sent  to  its  support,  rive  men  from  this  regiment  being 
detailed  as  artillerists,  in  addition  to  fifty  previously  de- 
tailed to-  Nims'  battery.  The  threatened  attack,  how- 
ever, was  not  made,  and  the  regiment  retained  its  posi- 
tion. Throughout  the  day  this  regiment  was  ably  sup- 
ported by  the  4th  Wisconsin,  Lt.  Col.  Bean  commanding. 
On  the  morning  of  the  6th  inst.  Capt.  S.  W.  Sawyer,  of 
Co.  H,  with  a  detachment  of  his  men,  captured  and 
brought  in  five  caissons  filled  with  ammunition. 

"The  officers  and  men  of  the  regiment  deserve  credit 
for  their  good  conduct,  under  the  disadvantage  of  having 
but  twelve  line  officers  in  the  field,  most  of  the  others 
being  on  detached  service,  and  some  sick  in  hospital. 
Adjutant  Kattenstroth  and  Sergeant-Major  Curtis  ren- 
dered efficient  service.  We  took  twenty-four  prisoners, 
one  a  commissioned  officer,  belonging'  mostly  to  the  4th 
Louisiana  Regiment,  of  whom  fourteen  were  wounded. 

"Our  loss  is  small,  owing  mostly  to  the  overshooting  of 
the  enemy.  The  casualties  are  : 

"Killed i 

"Wounded 9 

"Missing 4." 


Writes  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien  of  the  Ninth:  "I  was 
in  command  of  the  provost  guard  of  the  city,  and  when 
the  battle  opened  I  called  in  all  the  details  and  later 
marched  out  to  the  south  side  of  the  penitentiary.  A 
little  beyond,  Gen.  Williams'  body  was  being  removed 
to  the  rear.  Lieut.  Henry  H.  Elliott  told  me  that  the 
General  being  killed,  Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill  was  in 
command,  and  asked  me  if  I  knew  where  he  was?  I 
pointed  out  the  place." 

Wrote  Corporal  Peabody  of  the  Fourth  Massachusetts 
battery :  "Upon  the  death  of  Gen.  Williams,  Col.  Cahill 


122     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  regiment  assumed  command  of 
the  troops.  Col.  Dudley  remained  in  command  of  the 
right  wing,  while  Col.  Nickerson  of  the  Fourteenth  Maine 
succeeded  Col.  Cahill  in  command  of  the  left  wing.  The 
enemy,  after  this  last  repulse,  evincing  little  ambition  for 
more  slaughter,  but  contentedly  keeping  under  cover  of 
the  forest  beyond  Magnolia  cemetery,  caused  a  lull  in 
the  fight.  It  was  now  about  9  o'clock,  the  troops  were 
almost  worn  out  after  five  hours'  desperate  fighting,  our 
commanding  General  was  dead  on  the  field,  the  weather 
was  intensely  hot. 

"In  this  condition  of  affairs,  Col.  Cahill  ordered  a  new 
line  to  be  formed  200  yards  in  rear  of  the  first  line.  The 
enemy  seeing  this  backward  move,  sprang  from  his  cover, 
but  all  the  batteries  opening,  he  saw  that  we  still  intended 
to  fight,  and  fell  back  again.  About  10  a.  m.,  Col.  Cahill 
ordered  another  move  rearward,  the  troops  forming 
line  about  350  yards  from  the  enemy.  This  line  extended 
across  the  city,  the  gunboats  covering  our  flanks.  *  * 

*  As  the  Union  line  is  now  formed,  our  battery  is  on 
the  left  flank,  supported  by  the  Fourth  Wisconsin  regi- 
ment on  the  left,  the  Twenty-first    Indiana    regiment, 
grouped  in  our  rear,  and  Lieut.  Brown's  section  of  mule 
battery  extending  the  left  of  our  line  of  guns.     Stretch- 
ing away  to  the  right  for  a  half  mile,  and  occupying  all 
the  roads  leading  east,  are  the  Second  and  Sixth  Massa- 
chusetts batteries,  supported  by  the  Fourteenth  Maine, 
Seventh  Vermont,  Sixth  Michigan,  Thirtieth  Massachu- 
setts and  Ninth  Connecticut  regiments,  while  Magee's 
cavalry  is  in  front  closely  watching  the  enemy. 

"Col.  Cahill,  at  his  headquarters  in  a  house  a  few  yards 
to  the  left  rear  of  our  battery,  is  kept  well  informed  of  the 
movements  of  the  enemy  by  Private  Ralph  O.  Rowley, 
of  Magee's  cavalry,  a  brave  boy  only  20  years  old. 

*  Thus  ended  the  battle  of  Baton  Rouge.     *     *     * 
With  all  of  their  superior  force,  all  veterans  of  Shiloh,  the 
enemy  was  unable  to  force  our  second  line,  but  350  yards 


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in  rear  of  our  first.  The  desperate  resistance  they  met, 
their  heavy  loss  of  men,  seemed  to  paralyze  all  further 
action  and  they  were  content  to  remain  at  a  respectful 
distance,  and  at  night  burned  the  few  camps  they  had 
captured,  destroying  very  little  of  the  vast  amount  of 
government  property  in  the  city." 

The  total  loss  of  the  Union  forces  in  the  battle  was  84 
killed,  and  374  wounded, — 458.  The  next  day,  Aug.  6, 
1862,  a  force  of  negroes  was  put  at  work  burying  the 
dead  of  both  sides. 

The  wounded  of  both  armies  were  picked  up  and  taken 
to  hospitals  in  Baton  Rouge. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

GEN.     BRECKENRIDGE,     THE     CONFEDERATE     COMMANDER, 
SENDS  A  MESSAGE  TO  COL.  CAHILL  UNDER  A  FLAG  OF 

TRUCE NEW    SERIES     OF    FORTIFICATIONS     ERECTED 

AT    BATON    ROUGE THE    NINTH     RETURNS    TO    CAMP 

PARAPET,  AND   LATER  TO  NEW  ORLEANS BRILLIANT 

EXPLOIT    BY    CAPT.    JOHN    G.    HEALY,    ON    LAKE    PON- 
CHARTRAIN NOTES   AND   INCIDENTS. 

AMONG  the  Confederates  who  were  captured  in  the 
battle,  just  described,  were  Brig.-Gen.  Clark  and 
his  aide-de-camp,  Lieut.  Richard  C.  Yerger.  Gen.  Clark 
was  suffering  from  a  serious  wound  in  the  thigh.  At 
10.30  a.  m.,  on  the  day  after  the  engagement,  two  officers, 
with  a  flag  of  truce,  came  to  the  headquarters  of  Col. 
Cahill.  They  bore  the  following  message  from  Major- 
Gen.  Breckenridge,  the  Confederate  commander : 


HEADQUARTERS,  CONFEDERATE  FORCES, 

IN  THE  FIELD  NEAR 
BATON  ROUGE,  August  6,  1862. 

To  the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  United  States  Forces, 

Baton  Rouge,  La: 

I  have  sent  Major  De  Bawer,  with  a  flag  of  truce,  with 
the  request  that  he  will  be  allowed  to  attend  to  the  burial 
of  our  dead  who  may  have  been  left  in  your  lines.  Major 
Haynes,  accompanying,  desires  to  communicate  with 
Brigadier-General  Charles  Clark,  that  he  may  supply 
him  with  money  and  clothing,  and  such  articles  as  may 
contribute  to  his  comfort. 

Respectfully,  Sir, 

Your  Obedient  Servant, 

JOHN  C.  BRECKENRIDGE, 
Major  General  Commanding. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  ^5 

To  the  foregoing,  Col.  Cahill  thus  replied : 

HEADQUARTERS,  UNITED  STATES  FORCES, 

BATON  ROUGE,  August  6,  1862. 

General :  In  reply  to  your  communication  of  this  morn- 
ing, under  a  flag  of  truce,  I  have  the  honor  to  say  that 
we  are  now  engaged  in  the  burial  of  your  dead  within 
our  lines,  and  that  we  shall  soon  finish  the  now  nearly 
accomplished  work.  General  Clark  and  his  aide-de- 
camp, Lieutenant  Yerger,have  surrendered  themselves  as 
prisoners  of  war  and  are  now  being  cared  for  by  our  sur- 
geons. A  friend  of  General  Clark,  from  this  city,  will 
attend  to  his  pecuniary  wants. 

Respectfully, 

Your  Obedient  Servant, 

THOMAS  W.  CAHILL, 
Colonel  Commanding. 

To  Major  General  John  C.  Breckenridge. 


The  two  Confederate  officers,  bearing  this  reply,  there- 
upon returned  to  their  lines.  Gen.  Breckenridge  was 
so  chagrined  at  his  defeat  in  the  battle  that  he  threw  away 
his  sword,  and  the  latter  was  among  the  trophies  of  the 
Union  forces. 

After  the  battle  of  Baton  Rouge,  Gen.  Butler  issued 
his  ''General  Order  No.  57,"  in  which  he  makes  special 
allusion  to  the  Irish  Ninth  in  the  following  paragraph : — 

Michigan  stood  by  Maine,  Massachusetts 
supported  Indiana,  Wisconsin  aided  Vermont,  while  Con- 
necticut, represented  by  the  sons  of  the  ever  green  sham- 
rock, fought  as  their  fathers  did  at  Boyne  water. 

Gen.  Butler  also  said:  "The  Brigade  at  Baton 
Rouge  has  routed  the  enemy.  He  has  lost  three  briga- 
dier generals  killed,  wounded,  and  prisoners ;  many 
colonels  and  field  officers.  He  has  more  than  a  thousand 


126    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

killed  and  wounded.  You  have  captured  three  pieces  of 
artillery,  six  caissons,  two  stand  of  colors,  and  a  large 
number  of  prisoners.  You  have  buried  his  dead  on  the 
field  of  battle,  and  are  caring  for  his  wounded.  You  have 
convinced  him  that  you  are  never  so  sick  as  not  to  fight 
your  enemy  if  he  desires  the  contest.  You  have  shown 
him  that  if  he  cannot  take  an  outpost  after  weeks  of 
preparation  what  would  be  his  fate  with  the  main  body. 
If  your  General  should  say  he  was  proud  of  you  it  would 
only  be  to  praise  himself.  But  he  will  say  he  is  proud  to 
be  one  of  you  *  *  *." 

Aug.  n,  1862,  the  Union  forces  in  Baton  Rouge 
began  constructing  breastworks  in  expectation  of  an- 
other attack  from  the  enemy.  The  line  was  a  half  circle 
in  form  and  extended  from  the  river  at  Bayou  Gros  to 
the  river  at  the  foot  of  First  street.  The  Fourth  Wis- 
consin was  on  the  right,  the  Ninth  Connecticut  on  the 
left,  and  the  Thirtieth  Massachusetts,  Fourteenth  Maine, 
Seventh  Vermont,  Twenty-first  Indiana  and  the  Second 
and  Fourth  Massachusetts  batteries  between. 

Col.  Paine,  of  the  Fourth  Wisconsin,  was  in  command 
of  the  whole  force,  with  Colonels  Dudley,  Nickerson  and 
Cahill  in  command  of  the  right,  center,  and  left,  respec- 
tively. That  evening  the  troops  witnessed  a  great  illu- 
mination caused  by  the  burning  of  the  mill  and  other 
structures  on  Dougherty's  plantation,  located  on  the 
Springfield  Landing  road,  and  opposite  where  the  Ninth 
Connecticut  was  stationed. 

Work  on  the  fortifications  was  vigorously  pushed,  day 
and  night.  About  3  o'clock,  on  the  morning  of  Aug.  13, 
the  houses  on  First  street  were  all  set  on  fire,  by  order  of 
Col.  Paine,  and  were  entirely  consumed.  The  removal 
of  these  houses  greatly  improved  the  range  for  the  Union 
fleet  in  the  river  At  12.30  p.  m.,  or  thereabouts,  the  long 
roll  was  sounded,  causing  the  men  to  leave  dinner  and  get 
in  line  for  an  expected  attack.  Over  an  hour  passed  and 
,as  no  enemy  appeared,  the  Ninth  Connecticut  and  other 


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infantry  commands  stacked  arms  on  the  spot,  the  artillery 
placed  their  lanyards,  sponges,  etc.,  where  they  could  be 
instantly  reached,  and  the  men  resumed  their  interrupted 
repast.  Most  of  the  houses  on  First  street  that  had  been 
destroyed  belonged  to  the  wealthy  class,  and  had  been 
vacated  by  the  latter  upon  leaving  the  city.  Gen.  Breck- 
enridge  sent  word  to  Col.  Paine,  Aug.  13,  to  stop  burning 
houses  or  he — Breckenridge — would  attack  with  the 
"black  flag.'*'  Col.  Paine  spiritedly  replied  that  he  could 
put  in  an  appearance  with  his  black  flag  whenever  he  was 
so  disposed,  and  that  the  Union  forces  were  ready  to  give 
him  a  hot  reception.  He  didn't  come. 

In  the  meantime,  Col.  Paine  had  received  orders  from 
Gen.  Butler  to  evacuate  the  city.  The  evacuation  began 
about  2  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  Aug.  18.  Teams  from 
the  quartermaster's  department  drove  into  the  camp  of 
the  Ninth  and  began  loading  such  of  the  latter's  property 
as  could  then  be  spared,  for  transportation  to  the  levee 
from  whence  it  was  placed  aboard  a  steamer.  Next 
morning,  orders  were  issued  for  each  organization  to  get 
ready  two  days'  cooked  rations,  this  keeping  the  cooks  of 
the  Ninth  and  other  commands  very  busy. 

Wednesday  noon,  Aug.  20,  the  long  roll  was  again 
sounded,  the  Ninth  sprang  to  arms  and  quickly  took  its 
place  beside  the  other  organizations.  An  investigation 
showed  that  the  Union  pickets  were  being  driven  in  by 
the  Ninth  Louisiana  Partisan  Rangers,  a  cavalry  com- 
mand. Two  companies  of  the  Twenty-first  Indiana  were 
sent  out  and,  aided  by  the  U.  S.  S.  Mississippi,  from  the 
river,  repulsed  the  enemy  and  caused  him  to  retire. 
Thursday,  Aug.  21,  the  troops  began  evacuating  Baton 
Rouge,  and  embarking  on  the  steamers.  The  troops 
were  all  aboard  about  12.45  P-  m->  and  the  start  down  the 
river  was  made  soon  after.  At  daybreak,  Aug.  22,  the 
transport  fleet  reached  Camp  Parapet.  The  Ninth  Con- 
necticut and  other  infantry  landed  here,  while  the  Second 
and  Fourth  Massachusetts  batteries  proceeded  further 
down  to  Carrollton. 


I28     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

While  the  Ninth  regiment  was  again  located  at  Camp 
Parapet,  it  rendered  important  out-post  duty,  and  pick- 
eted the  shores  both  up  and  down  the  river.  On  Sept.  7, 
1862,  the  Ninth,  under  command  of  Major  Frye,  took 
part,  with  three  other  regiments,  in  a  movement  across 
the  river  to  the  neighborhood  of  St.  Charles'  Court 
House,  to  disperse  a  Confederate  camp  of  2,000  men  re- 
ported to  be  located  there.  At  daylight  on  the  morning 
of  Sept.  8,  the  Ninth,  with  the  Fourteenth  Maine,  landed 
and  marched  westward,  the  rest  of  the  force  proceeding 
half  a  dozen  miles  further  up.  Major  Frye's  official  re- 
port of  this  affair  states : 

"The  artillery  shelled  the  woods ;  but,  failing  to  dis- 
lodge the  enemy,  the  Ninth  Connecticut  was  thrown  for- 
ward as  skirmishers.  After  moving  forward  several 
miles  through  woods,  swamps,  bayous,  and  canebrakes, 
everywhere  rinding  traces  of  a  flying  enemy — abandoned 
haversacks,  blankets,  bundles,  papers,  etc. — it  was  found 
that  the  enemy,  mostly  cavalry,  attempting  to  break 
through  in  this  direction,  had  been  driven  back,  and, 
abandoning  their  horses,  saddles,  and  equipments,  had 
fled  into  an  almost  impenetrable  swamp.  But,  being 
surrounded  on  all  sides,  our  troops  killed  and  wounded 
eight,  taking  about  forty  prisoners,  and  bringing  in  up- 
wards of  two  hundred  horses  ready  equipped.  This  was 
accomplished  without  loss  on  our  side." 

Stores  and  considerable  other  property  were  likewise 
taken,  and  the  expedition  then  returned  to  camp.  Soon 
after  this,  the  Ninth  was  transferred  to  New  Orleans  and 
had  its  quarters  in  fashionable  Lafayette  square.  Col. 
Cahill  had  become  acting  brigadier-general  and  was 
given  command  of  the  military  defences  of  that  city.  A 
correspondent  o<f  the  New  York  Tribune,  in  one  of  his 
contributions,  states  that  "I  may  be  allowed  to  acknowl- 
edge the  services  of  one  of  our  oldest  and  best  disciplined 
regiments,  the  Ninth  Connecticut,  which  was  the  second 
regiment  debarked  at  Ship  Island.  Col.  T.  W.  Cahill 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  129 

has  been  for  the  past  year  an  acting  brigadier-general, 
and  is  still  serving  in  that  capacity." 

" During  1863,"  says  tne  Croffut-Morris  work,  "the 
Ninth  had  its  headquarters  at  New  Orleans ;  but  the  regi- 
ment was  dismembered, — two  companies  guarding  the 
Mexican-Gulf  Railroad  and  mouth  of  the  Mississippi ; 
one  company  at  Algiers,  opposite  New  Orleans ;  four 
companies  doing  provost-guard  duty  at  New  Orleans ; 
and  three  companies  stationed  at  Pass  Manchac,  about 
thirty-eight  miles  above  New  Orleans,  at  the  water  com- 
munication between  Lakes  Ponchartrain  and  Maurepas, 
the  outer  limit  of  the  defenses  of  New  Orleans. 

"Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill  was  placed  in  charge  of  the 
defenses,  and  in  command  of  a  brigade  consisting  of  the 
Ninth,  and  three  Massachusetts  regiments.  Lieut-Col. 
R.  Fitz  Gibbons  was  in  command  of  the  regiment  [the 
Ninth].  Major  Frederick  Frye  commanded  Pass  Man- 
chac, and  the  fort  there,  including  a  detachment  of  the 
2ist  Indiana.  Major  Frye  wrote  at  this  time: 

"Refugees  come  in  daily, — sometimes  as  many  as  a 
dozen  at  a  time, — men,  women,  and  children;  ragged, 
half-starved,  and  worn  down  with  fatigue.  What  some 
of  the  mothers,  with  babes  in  their  arms,  suffer, 
is  beyond  imagination.  Think  of  a  mother  and  child 
alone  two  days  and  nights  in  a  swamp  knee-deep,  with 
nothing  to  eat;  where  snakes,  among  them  the  deadly 
moccasin,  abound ;  where  in  the  daytime  the  heat  is  in- 
sufferable, and  at  night  chilly ;  losing  her  way ;  struggling 
through ;  and,  amid  all,  more  afraid  of  falling  again  into 
the  enemy's  hands  than  of  the  surrounding  dangers, — 
think  of  this,  and  you  have  but  an  everyday  occurrence. 
And,  oh !  with  what  heartfelt  joy  she  smiles,  and  nestles 
up  her  child,  when  she  falls  in  with  a  Yankee  picket. 
None  of  the  blacks  have  had  a  suit  of  clothes  since  the 
war  broke  out ;  and  what  with  living  in  the  woods,  trav- 
eling nights,  escaping  rebel  pickets,  they  have  but  little 
of  the  manufactured  article  about  them  when  they  reach 
9 


130    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

our  lines.  Four  have  just  come, — fair  specimens  in  their 
get-up  of  a  Carnival  of  Venice.  They  are  the  survivors 
of  fifteen  who  started  a  week  ago,  and  have  been  in- 
woods  and  swamps,  hunted  by  dogs  and  rebels;  and,  as 
they  say,  (De  balance  done  gone  squandered.' ''' 

Capt.  John  G.  Healy,  of  the  Ninth,  performed  a  dash- 
ing exploit  on  Lake  Ponchartrain  on  the  night  of  Feb.  3, 
1863.  The  details  are  thus  given  in  an  account  published 
in  Frank  Leslie's  Illustrated  Newspaper,  Feb.  14,  that  year : 

CAPTURE  OF  A  CONTRABANDIST  ON  LAKE  PONCHARTRAIN. 

On  the  night  of  the  3d  of  February  as  Captain  J.  G. 
Healy,  of  the  Qth  Connecticut  volunteers,  with  three  pri- 
vates was  picketing  the  lake,  he  saw  by  the  moonlight  a 
sloop  sailing  towards  Dixie,  evidently  having  come  from 
New  Orleans.  He  immediately  put  off  with  his  three 
men,  in  a  boat,  and  soon  pulled  up  to  the  strange  sail,  the 
crew  of  which  fired  several  shots,  some  of  which  came  in 
close  proximity  to  Capt.  Healy.  Running  alongside, 
Capt.  Healy  sprang  on  board  the  sloop,  and  presenting 
his  revolver  to  the  head  of  one  of  the  smugglers,  de- 
manded their  surrender.  They  complied  with  his  de- 
mand. When  the  sloop  was  brought  ashore  it  was  found 
to  contain  a  very  valuable  cargo  of  medicines  and  other 
useful  articles. 

When  the  Union  boat  was  nearing  the  lugger  one  of 
the  crew  was  observed  to  throw  a  parcel  overboard;  it 
was  "fished  in,"  and  found  to  contain  a  number  of  letters 
from  many  of  the  prominent  citizens  of  New  Orleans  to 
some  of  the  chief  rebels.  The  crew,  which  consisted  of 
two  Jews  and  a  Creole,  were  immediately  committed  to 
jail,  and  will  be  held  to  give  evidence  against  some  of 
those  whose  letters  have  been  thus  captured.  The  cargo 
is  valued  at  $50,000. 

Another  published  account  gives  some  additional  de- 
tails and  reads: 

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on  Saturday  night.  Capt.  John  G.  Healy,  of  Co.  C, 
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Hickock's  Landing.  His  force  consists  of  two  com- 
panies. On  the  night  in  question,  the  captain,  being  on 
picket  duty,  got  the  wink  of  a  party  of  men  who  were 
crossing  the  lake  with  the  intention  of  running  the  block- 
ade. He  promptly  had  two  boats  manned,  one  of  which 
he  commanded  in  person ;  the  other  was  in  charge  of  his 
first  lieutenant.  About  six  miles  from  the  shore  a  small 
speck  was  discovered  from  the  captain's  boat,  which 
turned  out  to  be  the  craft  he  was  in  pursuit  of. 

The  stranger  had  sails  set  and  vans  out;  but  though 
Capt.  Healy's  boat  had  oars  alone,  he  neared  the  other 
rapidly.  There  must  have  been  some  tall  pulling  among 
Uncle  Samuel's  children  that  night.  On  reaching  hail- 
ing distance,  the  suspicious  boat  was  hailed  two  or  three 
times ;  but,  as  no  answer  was  elicited,  a  rifle  was  fired  to 
teach  her  crew  good  manners.  The  bullet,  it  was  after- 
wards ascertained,  took  effect  in  the  cap  of  one  of  the 
men  belonging  to  the  rebel  boat.  It  had  the  effect  in- 
tended; for  the  boat  hove  to,  and  the  loyal  craft  went 
alongside,  when  there  was  found  on  board  some  $800 
worth  of  quinine ;  about  the  same  value  in  chloroform ; 
thirteen  boxes,  containing  each  two  dozen  of  cotton 
cards ;  three  boxes  of  assorted  medicines,  together  with  a 
lot  of  miscellaneous  articles,  just  what  the  rebels  most 
need. 

On  one  man  $400  in  money  was  found.  But  the  best 
part  of  the  prize  was  a  mail-bag  containing  seventy  let- 
ters. The  bag  was  thrown  overboard;  but  the  action 
was  seen  by  Capt.  Healy,  and,  as  the  water  was  shallow, 
he  had  no  difficulty  in  recovering  it.  The  contents  of  the 
letters  have  not  been  made  known,  of  course;  but  it  is 
said  they  tend  to'  implicate  not  only  persons  in  New  Or- 
leans, but  some  of  the  leading  men  of  the  North. 

During  1863,  a  reconnoissance  was  made  of  the  coun- 
try north  of  Pass  Manchac,  several  companies  of  the 
Ninth  participating.  Two  companies  were  stationed  at 
the  North  Pass,  dividing  Jones  Island  from  the  swamp 
land  and  road  leading  to  Ponchatoula,  and  two  rifled 
guns  were  placed  in  position  here,  manned  by  men  of  the 
Ninth  under  Capt.  John  G.  Healy.  The  expedition  was 
a  success.  The  enemy  lost  three  killed  and  eleven 
wounded,  and  among  the  prisoners  captured  were  twenty- 


132     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

two  Choctaw  Indians,  who  were  taken  by  a  guard,  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Healy,  to  New  Orleans.  On  Dec.  3Oth, 
the  Ninth  was  assigned  to>  the  Second  Brigade  of  General 
Grover's  Division,  of  the  Nineteenth  Corps.  The  regi- 
ment was  in  the  engagement  at  La  Fourche  Crossing, 
June,  1863. 

At  various  periods  during  the  Fall  and  Winter  of  1863, 
detachments  of  the  Ninth  "were  stationed  upon  the  Gulf, 
along  the  shores  of  Lake  Borgne,  in  the  defenses  at  Lake- 
port,  Proctorville,  and  Chalmette,  or  on  the  canal  and 
railroad ;  while  a  portion  was  at  the  north,  and  a  portion 
in  Texas  with  the  field  signal-corps.  *  *  *  During 
this  season,  five  companies,  under  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gib- 
bon, had  a  skirmish  with  the  enemy  near  Terrebonne. 
Company  I,  Capt.  Elliot  M.  Curtis,  was  detached  to  watch 
the  crossroads ;  while  companies  G,  under  Capt.  William 
Wright ;  C,  under  Lieut.  A.  E.  Payne ;  E,  under  Lieut. 
T.  Fitz  Gibbon ;  D,  under  Capt.  John  G.  Healy ;  K, 
Capt.  Terence  Sheridan,  were  sent  out  to  skirmish  through 
the  swamp  towards  Chackahoola  [Chattahoola]  Station. 
There  was  a  brisk  engagement  ;but  the  enemy  maintained 
possession.  Capt.  S.  W.  Sawyer  also  made  several  raids 
into  the  district  to  the  southeast." 

Lieut.  Lawrence  O'Brien  was  promoted  to  be  captain 
of  Company  D,  of  the  Ninth,  Oct.  15,  1862.  A  month 
previously,  he  had  been  wounded  in  the  left  hip,  while  on 
an  expedition  against  guerillas  in  the  Parish  of  St. 
Charles,  La.  He  was  later  detailed  as  provost  marshal, 
by  Gen  Banks,  for  the  Parish  of  St.  James,  La.  Subse- 
quently, he  was  appointed  provost  judge  of  the  Parish 
of  St.  James,  by  order  of  Gen.  George  F.  Shepley,  mili- 
tary governor  of  Louisiana. 

An  order,  dated  New  Orleans,  Dec.  8,  1862,  provided 
that  "Sergt.  Henry  C.  Wright,  Ninth  Connecticut,  is 
hereby  apointed  first  lieutenant  and  quartermaster  of  the 
Third  regiment  Native  Guards  (colored),  *  *  *  " 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  133 

Capt.  John  Foley,  of  Company  F,  of  the  Ninth,  and 
Second  Lieut.  William  H.  Carroll,  of  the  same  company, 
having  tendered  their  resignations,  the  same  were  ac- 
cepted and  both  officers  were  honorably  discharged  the 
service  of  the  United  States.  The  order  for  their  dis- 
charge was  issued  from  Department  headquarters,  New 
Orleans,  Dec.  20,  1862. 

The  operations  at  La  Fourche  Crossing,  La.,  June 
20-21,  1863,  were  of  a  stirring  nature.  Our  troops  en- 
countered the  enemy  and  a  severe  fight  ensued,  result- 
ing in  the  foe's  discomfiture.  The  following  relates  to 
this  affair: 


HEADQUARTERS,  SECOND  BRIGADE,  SECOND  DIVISION, 
BOUTTE  STATION,  June  21,  1863, — 4  a.  m. 

LIEUT.  COL.  W.  D.  SMITH, 

Acting  Assistant  Adjutant-General,  Defenses  of  New 
Orleans : 

COLONEL : 

I  have  the  honor  to  inform  you  that  this  command  ar- 
rived here  at  8.10  o'clock  last  night,  and,  in  pursuance  of 
instructions,  I  disembarked  a  portion  of  the  troops,  viz, 
185  men,  belonging  to  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Volunteers. 
Of  the  remainder,  three  companies  of  the  Twenty-sixth 
Massachusetts,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Amiable, 
were  left  at  Bayou  Des  Allemands,  with  instructions 
to  guard  the  bridge  and  ascertain  the  character  of  ap- 
proching  trains,  and,  in  case  the  troops  in  front  were 
forced  to  fall  back,  to  cover  the  retreat  by  obstructing 
the  track,  and,  if  necessary,  burning  the  bridge.  I  have 
communicated  with  them  once  during  the  night  by  means 
of  a  hand-car.  This  neighborhood  is  all  quiet.  *  *  * 

THOMAS  W.  CAHILL, 
Colonel  Commanding  Second  Brigade. 


134    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 
The  following  orders  were  issued : 

HEADQUARTERS,  DEFENSES  OF  NEW  ORLEANS, 

June  21,  1863. 
COLONEL  CAHILL: 

You  will  go  with  your  whole  force  immediately  to  sup- 
port Colonel  Stickney,  who  is  engaged  with  the  enemy 
at  La  Fourche  Crossing. 

The  Texas  cavalry  will  take  your  position,  but  you  will 
not  wait  till  they  arrive.  Secure  Des  Allemands  as  you 
pass. 

By  Command  of 

W.  H.  EMORY, 

Brigadier  General  Commanding. 
W.  D.  SMITH, 

Lieut.  Col.  and  A.  A.  A.  Gen. 


HEADQUARTERS,  DEFENSES  OF  NEW  ORLEANS, 

June  21,  1863. 

LlEUT ENANT-COLONEL  STICKNEY: 

Hold  on  bravely !     I  have  ordered  Colonel  Cahill  with 
all  his  forces  to  go  to  your  support. 

W.  H.  EMORY, 
Brigadier-General  Commanding. 


Capt.  John  A.  Grow,  of  the  Twenty-fifth  New  York 
battery,  in  his  report  of  operations  June  20-25,  ^63,  in- 
cluding the  engagement  at  La  Fourche  Crossing,  states : 

"On  the  2Oth  day  of  June  I  received  orders  to  proceed 
at  once  to  La  Fourche  Crossing.  The  order  having  been 
received  at  about  4  p.  m.,  my  battery,  with  all  the  bag- 
gage, was  taken  across  the  river  and  put  on  board  the 
cars  by  i  a.  m.  (night)  ;  the  train  left  at  4  a.  m.  On  reach- 
ing Boutte  Station,  I  found  Colonel  Cahill  stationed  at 
that  place  with  his  [command].  He  ordered  me  to  leave 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  135 

one  section  of  my  battery  with  him,  and  to  proceed  my- 
self with  the  other  section  to  the  La  Fourche  Crossing. 
I  reached  that  place  about  10  a.  m.  of  the  2ist.  My 

battery  was  soon  unloaded  and  the  pieces  parked. 

*      » 

Speaking  of  the  engagement  that  ensued,  Capt.  Grow 
mentions  the  men  who  served  one  of  his  pieces  of  artil- 
lery and  says  they  "behaved  most  gallantly — so  much  so, 
I  have  mentioned  them  in  my  report  to  Colonel  Cahill." 
Capt.  Grow  continues :  "  *  *  *  The  next  forenoon 
was  occupied  with  a  flag  of  truce,  which  the  enemy  sent 
up  asking  the  privilege  of  burying  his  dead.  While  this 
was  pending,  Colonel  Cahill  arrived  with  his  forces.  We 
were  then  about  1,100  strong,  and,  through  the  strength 
of  our  position,  we  could  effectually  defend  our  position 
against  2,000  rebels.  The  arrival  of  Colonel  Cahill  was 
distinctly  seen  by  the  rebels,  and  that  night  they  com- 
menced to  retreat." 

Writing  from  Boutte  Station,  La.,  June  22,  1863,  Capt. 
John  G.  Healy,  of  the  Ninth,  remarks :  "As  is  well  known 
in  this  department,  a  large  portion  of  the  forces  of  Gen. 
Banks  are,  at  the  present  time,  near  the  Confederate 
stronghold  Port  Hudson.  The  fact  that  Banks  had  sent 
nearly  all  the  troops  that  had  been  stationed  at  the  dif- 
ferent villages  and  plantations,  between  New  Orleans  and 
Springfield  Landing,  to  attack  the  rebel  stronghold  just 
mentioned  soon  became  known  to  rebel  sympathizers, 
A  few  thousand  Confederates  succeeded  in  making  their 
way  to  some  of  the  weakened  points,  and  had  destroyed 
four  of  our  transports  at  a  place  called  La  Fourche  Cross- 
ing. Most  of  the  rebels  being  mounted,  proved  very 
troublesome  to  our  small  forces  of  infantry  left  to*  garrison 
those  places. 

"For  some  days  rumors  had  been  current  in  New  Or- 
leans that  a  large  body  of  the  enemy  was  in  the  rear  of 
our  forces  at  Brashear  City,  that  it  had  captured  two  or 
three  of  our  companies  and  was  on  its  way  to  New 


136     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Orleans.  This  report  caused  much  excitement  in  the 
latter  place,  especially  among  the  soldiers.  As  a  result  of 
the  report,  an  order  was  issued  that  all  the  officers,  in  and 
around  the  city,  should  hold  themselves  in  readiness  to 
move  at  a  moment's  notice.  On  Saturday  the  order  came 
for  us  to  move,  and  to  take  two  days'  cooked  rations. 
Five  companies  of  the  Ninth,  C,  E,  G,  I,  and  K,  were  to 
go  in  addition  to  the  Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts  regi- 
ment and  a  New  York  battery.  We  crossed  the  Missis- 
sippi river,  on  the  ferry  boat,  to  Algiers,  and  about  dark 
went  aboard  the  cars.  Officers  and  men  were  in  excellent 
spirits  and  eager  to  meet  the  foe. 

"We  fully  expected  to  encounter  him  in  a  short  time. 
We  reached  Boutte  Station  about  9.30  that  night  and 
were  ordered  to  remain  at  the  Station,  while  the  Massa- 
chusetts regiment  and  the  New  York  battery  were  sent 
a  few  miles  further  on.  After  disembarking  from  the  cars, 
my  company  was  sent  out  on  picket  duty,  as  was  also 
Company  G.  About  daylight  the  next  morning,  a  train 
came  down  from  La  Fourche  with  some  500  negroes  and 
a  few  prisoners.  Soon  after  this,  I  advanced  my  com- 
pany about  two  miles  further  on.  We  very  soon  discov- 
ered a  body  of  cavalry  approaching.  When  they  came 
nearer,  however,  we  found  they  were  friends  instead  of 
foes.  They  proved  to  be  one  company  of  the  First  Texas 
cavalry  coming  to  re-enforce  us. 

"Soon,  I  was  ordered  to  advance  my  company  to  the 
levee,  a  distance  of  some  four  miles  from  the  headquar- 
ters. ]t  was  now  raining  very  hard.  The  rain  came  down 
in  torrents  and  by  the  time  we  reached  the  river,  we  were 
drenched  to  the  skin.  We  were  fortunate,  however,  in 
getting  comfortable  quarters.  About  midnight  an  orderly 
came  to  me  and  reported  that  the  rebels  had  been  suc- 
cessful and  were  on  their  way  to  encounter  our  force.  The 
men  were  aroused  and  were  soon  ready  for  whatever 
might  happen.  We  remained  up  until  daylight,  expect- 
ing an  attack  every  moment,  but  none  came." 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  137 

Writing  under  date  of  New  Orleans,  June  29,  1863, 
Capt.  John  G.  Healy  gives  the  following  account  of 
events  that  transpired  about  the  time  he  wrote  the  fore- 
going: ''About  5  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  June  21,  we 
received  information  that  we  were  to  proceed  many  miles 
up  the  railroad  for  the  purpose  of  re-enforcing  the  troops 
at  La  Fourche  Crossing.  As  soon  as  possible,  we  had 
all  the  darkeys  on  the  plantation  busy  harnessing  mules 
and  hitching  them  to  the  large  wagons  which  are  always 
to  be  found  on  a  plantation.  The  roads  were  very 
muddy,  it  having  rained  the  day  and  night  previously, 
and  the  distance  from  where  my  company  was  stationed 
to  the  Colonel's  quarters  was  five  miles.  We,  therefore, 
jumped  into  the  wagons  and  started.  When  we  arrived, 
however,  we  found  the  place  deserted.  All  the  soldiers 
and  citizens  had  suddenly  left,  with  the  exception  of  two 
members  of  the  New  York  battery  who  had  been  left  at 
the  Station,  by  Col.  Cahill,  with  orders  for  me  to  put  my 
command  on  the  next  train  and  join  him  at  La  Fourche. 
In  a  short  time  we  were  aboard  the  cars  and  speeding 
away. 

"In  two  hours  time,  we  arrived  near  La  Fourche  and 
upon  our  arrival,  were  received  with  cheers.  All  was 
excitement.  Negroes  were  constructing  breastworks,  the 
cause  of  which  I  soon  learned.  There  had  been  a  fight 
the  night  before,  and  right  before  me  lay  dead  and 
wounded.  A  flag  of  truce  came  in  from  the  enemy  for 
permission  to  bury  their  dead  and  carry  off  their 
wounded.  I  learned  that  our  troops  had  been  attacked 
the  previous  night  by  a  largely  superior  force.  In  the 
afternoon  of  the  day  of  my  arrival,  we  formed  line  of 
battle  twice,  the  enemy's  cavalry  being  seen  prowling 
around.  It  was  expected  they  would  make  an  attack,  but 
they  did  not.  We  were  up  twice  that  night  and,  so,  had 
very  little  rest.  About  12  o'clock  the  same  night,  the 
enemy  opened  fire  with  artillery  to  which  our  gunners 
replied.  The  enemy's  firing,  as  we  afterward  learned, 


138    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

was  only  to  cover  their  retreat.  The  next  morning  four 
companies  of  the  Ninth  were  ordered  to  make  a  recon- 
noissance  up  the  railroad  and  to  ascertain,  if  possible,  the 
position  of  the  enemy. 

"We  started  about  noon,  and  after  marching  about  six 
miles  we  entered  the  village  of  Terrebonne.  We  learned 
that  a  strong  force  of  the  enemy  had  passed  through  there 
early  that  morning.  Company  K,  of  our  regiment,  was 
stationed  here  while  the  three  remaining  companies,  C, 
E,  and  I,  proceeded.  We  had  gone  some  four  miles  when 
the  advance  guard  captured  five  rebels.  Finding  that  the 
enemy  was  in  force,  a  few  miles  further  on,  we  returned. 
We  were  disturbed  by  a  false  alarm  that  night,  and  the 
next  morning  the  five  companies  of  our  regiment  were 
ordered  on  board  the  cars.  We  were  instructed  to  pro- 
ceed up  the  road  as  far  as  we  could  in  order  to  protect 
the  men  while  they  were  repairing  the  road.  We,  accord- 
ingly, went  about  two  miles  further  than  we  had  the 
previous  day,  and  learned  that  the  rebels  had  set  fire  to 
a  bridge  and  that  it  would  take  some  time  to  repair  it. 
We  sent  out  an  advance  guard  which  had  proceeded  but 
a  short  distance  when  the  enemy  opened  fire.  The  day 
was  intensely  hot. 

"I  was  ordered  to  take  my  company  to  the  support  of 
the  advance  guard.  As  we  came  in  sight  of  the  rebels 
they  opened  a  brisk  fire  upon  us.  It  was  speedily  returned 
by  our  men.1  The  enemy's  bullets  fell  thick  around  us. 
The  rebels  had  the  advantage  of  us,  as  they  were  fighting 
from  behind  the  cover  of  the  houses,  while  our  men  were 
on  the  railroad  track.  Very  soon  after  we  entered  the 
fight,  one  of  my  men  was  shot  through  the  side,  the  ball 
entering  the  front,  nearly  under  the  arm,  and  coming  out 
at  the  back.  The  wounded  man  was  Ernest  Dresher.  A 
braver  man  never  carried  a  musket.  He  loaded  and  fired 
twice  after  he  was  shot.  In  a  few  seconds,  another  of  my 
men,,  George  Robinson,  was  shot  through  the  arm.  The 

1  This  was  the  engagement  of  Chattahoola  Station,  La. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  I39 

poor  fellow  had  fine  courage,  and  walked  two  miles  with- 
out assistance.  Immediately  after  Robinson  was  hit, 
Frank  Judge  of  my  company  was  shot.  He  was  standing 
near  me,  firing  as  fast  as  he  could,  when  a  ball  struck 
him.  It  went  through  his  left  arm  and  entered  his  side 
where  it  now  is.  The  poor  fellow  was  in  terrible  pain. 
A  member  of  Company  E,  of  the  Ninth,  was  also 
wounded.  The  order  was  now  given  for  us  to  fall  back, 
as  the  enemy  was  advancing  with  a  large  force.  We 
boarded  the  cars  and  returned  to  La  Fourche  Crossing." 

Under  date  of  "New  Orleans,  La.,  June  27,  1863, 
Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon  of  the  Ninth,  makes  the  follow- 
ing report :  

" General:  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  the  following 
report  of  the  movements  of  Companies  C,  E,  G,  I,  and  K, 
of  the  Ninth  Regiment  of  Connecticut  Volunteers,  or- 
dered to  guard  a  train  while  repairing  the  track  on  the 
New  Orleans,  Opelousas  and  Great  Western  Railroad : 

"Left  La  Fourche  Crossing  at  8  a.  m.  on  the  24th  June, 
1863.  Arrived  at  Terrebonne  Station,  distance  4  miles; 
detached  Company  I, Capt. Elliot  M.Curtis, commanding, 
to  watch  the  crossroads  leading  into  the  place ;  repaired 
the  track  one  mile  beyond  the  last-named  station;  then 
proceeded  toward  Chattahoola  Station ;  arrived  at  a  point 
within  one  mile  of  the  station,  where  we  found  a  bridge 
burning;  commenced  rebuilding  this  bridge.  Between 
the  bridge  and  the  station  was  a  very  heavy  swamp,  both 
sides  of  the  track,  thickly  wooded. 

"I  immediately  sent  out  Captain  Wright,  Company  G, 
to  skirmish  up  toward  the  station,  together  with  Lieu- 
tenant Payne,  Company  C ;  Lieutenant  McKeon,  Com- 
pany E ;  and  Lieutenant  Fitz  Gibbon,  with  a  sufficient 
force,  to  support  him.  On  arriving  within  sight  of  the 
station,  a  very  sharp  fire  was  opened  upon  our  forces, 
which  was  briskly  returned.  I  then  ordered  up  Com- 
pany C,  Capt.  John  G.  Healy,  and  also  Company  E,  Capt. 


1 40    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Terence  Sheridan ;  Company  K,  Capt.  Thomas  Healy, 
and  part  of  Company  G,  were  kept  in  reserve.  My  forces 
being  obliged  to  confine  their  operations  to  the  railroad 
track,  the  enemy  being  posted  in  considerable  force  in  an 
open  country  in  front,  under  cover  of  some  small  build- 
ings and  fences,  I  considered  it  prudent  to  return  after 
engaging  him  one  hour ;  I  also  heard  the  gun  fired  from 
the  La  Fourche  Crossing  as  a  signal  to  return. 

"Sergt.  Peter  Donnelly  and  Private  Charles  Reynolds, 
of  Company  C,  were  taken  prisoners  of  war,  and  on  the 
26th  of  June,  1863,  were  paroled  at  La  Fourche  Cross- 
ing, La.  Our  loss  was  3  wounded. 


"We  arrived  at  Raceland  at  daylight  next  morning, 
where  we  halted  until  the  afternoon  of  the  25th  instant, 
when  we  were  ordered  to  take  a  train  of  cars  for  Algiers, 
and  the  same  night  reached  Lafayette  Square,  our  former 
quarters,  where  we  now  are." 


Major  Frye,  of  the  Ninth,  thus  describes  some  of  the 
drawbacks  at  Pass  Manchac ;  "The  moccasins  and  rattle- 
snakes are  quite  abundant,  and  apparently  old  settlers,  as 
we  killed  one  with  nine  rattles.  They  are  quite  a  pro- 
tection against  a  flank  movement  of  the  enemy  through 
the  swamp ;  and  alligators  actually  stick  their  noses  into 
the  tents,  in  hopes  of  stealing  a  biscuit  or  a  piece  of  pork. 
And  then,  all  night  long,  the  soldier  is  lulled  to  sleep  by 
the  most  infernal  croaking  of  tree  toads,  and  kept  asleep 
by  the  buzzing  and  biting  of  myriads  of  mosquitoes  and 
yellow  flies.  One  knows  not  how  it  is ;  but  though  every 
soldier  has  a  mosquito-bar;  still,  daylight  will  find  as 
many  inside  as  out ;  and  then  innumerable  green  lizards 
about  four  inches  long,  harmless  but  sportive,  gambol 
and  catch  flies  and  mosquitoes  freely  upon  your  face  and 
body." 


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A  staff  officer  tells  the  following  amusing  incident  of 
the  Ninth's  stay  in  New  Orleans  :  "The  Ninth  was  quar- 
tered in  Lafayette  square ;  and  a  soldier  whom  we  will 
call  Phil  McGilligan,  an  old  timer,  was  on  sentry  on  the 
Camp  street  side  of  the  square,  when  a  strange  looking 
nondescript  came  sauntering  along.  He  wore  a  stove- 
pipe hat,  a  military  coat  with  the  insignia  of  a  brigadier 
embroidered  on  the  shoulder  straps.  His  pantaloons  of 
black  cloth  were  some  six  inches  too  short,  which  dis- 
played a  well-worn  stagy  boot  and  was  quite  innocent  of 
blacking.  He  carried  a  blue  cotton  umbrella  which  was 
carefully  tucked  under  his  left  arm.  I  should  say  here 
that  his  coat  was  worn  open  with  the  collar  turned  down. 
In  passing  McGilligan,  the  brigadier  noticed  the  sentinel 
paid  no  attention  to  him.  The  general  passed  and  re- 
passed  ;  still  receiving  no  attention,  he  confronted  the 
sentinel  in  a  mild  manner,  exclaiming  proudly,  'Soldier, 
don't  you  know  me?'  McGilligan  eyed  him  quizzically, 
and  at  once  replied,  'No !  Who  are  you  anyway?' 

"With  this  the  general's  face  flushed  with  indignation 

and  he  yelled  forth,  'Sentry,  I  am  General of  the 

State  of  Maine.'  " 

"Thereupon  McGilligan  gave  a  prolonged  whistle  and 
replied :  'The  devil  ye  are.  I  think  I've  heard  of  ye  be- 
fore. So  ye  are  the  rale  Maine  man.  Gineral,  if  ye  are 
a  gineral,  take  my  advice  and  get  away  for  the  Ninth 
C.  V.' 

"The  general,  believing  the  man  to  be  a  lunatic,  bolted 
away,  highly  indignant,  and  turned  on  his  heel  with  a 
firm  determination  of  reporting  the  entire  transaction  to 
the  commanding  general.  However,  on  his  way  to 
headquarters  he  met  the  major  of  the  Ninth,  who  by  the 
way  knew  how  to  enjoy  a  joke  as  well  as  any  man. 

"The  general  button-holed  the  major  and  repeated  the 
entire  transaction.  The  major  was  somewhat  of  a  wag; 
slipping  his  arm  under  the  irate  brigadier,  he  led  him 
away,  saying,  'Never  mind,  General,  let  us  go  over  to  the 


I42     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Park  House  and  take  a  good  cocktail.  We  will  try  and 
forget  the  unfortunate  occurrence,  and  as  there  is  but  one 
man  living  who  can  do  anything  with  them,  that  is  Gen- 
eral B.  F.  Butler,  I  would  not  say  anything  further  about 
it.' 

"When  the  major  proposed  the  cocktail  the  general's 
eyes  fairly  snapped — flashing  fire  as  it  were.  Breaking 
loose  from  the  major,  he  exclaimed,  'What,  sir,  add  in- 
sult on  insult ;  do  you  fail  to  remember  that  I  am  an  ad- 
vocate of  the  Maine  liquor  law  and  for  sixty  years  of  my 
life  I  am  been  fighting  the  devil  ?  Yes  sir,  I  believe  the 
Ninth  are  all  devils,  from  the  colonel  down  to  McGilli- 
gan.' 

"The  case  was  reported  to  the  commanding  general,  but 
as  nothing  was  ever  heard  of  it  afterward  the  major  and 
McGilligan  kept  quiet  about  the  Maine  law  advocate." 

Special  Order,  No.  304,  Department  of  the  Gulf,  issued 
at  New  Orleans,  Aug.  26,  1862,  read  as  follows:  "The 
resignation  of  Rev.  Daniel  Mullen,  chaplain  of  the  Ninth 
regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  is  hereby  accepted,  to 
take  effect  from  this  date,  and  he  is  honorably  discharged 
from  the  service.''  (By  order  of  Major-Gen.  Butler). 
Chaplain  Mullen  resigned  because  of  poor  health. 

Special  Order,  No.  351,  Department  of  the  Gulf,  dated 
at  New  Orleans,  Sept.  5,  1862,  provided  that  "Acting 
Brigadier-General  Thos.  W.  Cahill  will  detail  one  or  two 
mounted  orderlies,  as  may  be  necessary,  to  be  stationed 
at  the  telegraph  office  at  Carrollton  to  take  messages 
when  they  arrive."  (By  order  of  Major-Gen.  Butler). 

Special  Order,  No,  387,  New  Orleans,  Sept.  18,  1862, 
read:  "Brig.-Gen.  T.  W.  Sherman,  U.  S.  Volunteers, 
having  reported  for  duty,  is  assigned  to  the  command  of 
the  force  near  Carrollton.  Acting  Brig.-Generals  Dud- 
ley, Paine  and  Cahill  will  report  to  him." 

An  order  issued  at  New  Orleans,  Oct.  21,  1862,  an- 
nounced that  "First  Lieut.  Alfred  G.  Hall,  Ninth  regi- 
ment, Connecticut  Volunteers,  having  been  commis- 


LIEUT.  WM.  O'KEEFE. 

LIEUT.  JNO.  McCusKER.  Q.  M.  NATHAN  1,  BENNSTT. 

LIEUT.  CHRISTIAN  STREIT.  LIEUT.  JNO.  SHAW. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  I43 

sioned  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Second  Regiment  Na- 
tive Guards,  free  colored,  Louisiana  volunteers,  is  hereby 
relieved  from  duty  in  the  Ninth  Regiment,  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  and  ordered  to  report  to  Col.  N.  W.  Daniels 
for  duty."  (By  command  of  Major-Gen.  Butler). 

Oct.  25,  1862,  an  order  was  issued  to  the  effect  that, 
"The  resignation  of  Captain  James  P.  Hennessey,  Qth 
regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  is  hereby  accepted 
to  take  effect  from  this  date."  (By  command  of  Major- 
Gen.  Butler). 

The  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Ninth,  under  date  of 
Sept.  26,  1862,  issued  Regimental  Order,  No.  24,  pro- 
viding that :  "In  accordance  with  orders  from  brigade 
headquarters,  this  regiment  will  appear  in  heavy  march- 
ing order,  for  inspection  and  review  by  Brig.-Gen.  Sher- 
man, Saturday  morning,  Sept.  27.  The  regimental  line 
will  be  promptly  formed  at  8  o'clock  a.  m.  *  *  * 

The  following  budget  of  Regimental  Orders  issued  to 
the  Ninth,  during  1862,  and  dated  New  Orleans,  will 
be  found  of  interest.  Each  was  issued  "By  order  of 
Thomas  W.  Cahill,"  colonel,  and  is  signed  by  "Henry 
Kattenstroth,  adjutant :" 

Oct.  26,  1862,  "First  Lieut.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  Com- 
pany B,  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  is  here- 
by relieved  from  duty  in  that  company  and  will,  until 
further  orders,  assume  command  of  Company  D,  of  this 
regiment,  and  will  be  obeyed  and  respected  accordingly." 

Oct.  26,  1862.  "First  Lieut.  Charles  S.  Palmer  of 
Company  I,  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  is 
hereby  relieved  from  duty  in  that  company,  and  will  until 
further  orders,  assume  command  of  Company  G,  of  this 
regiment,  *  *  *  " 

Oct.  29,  1862.  "Sergeant  Evarts  of  Company  E,  is  here- 
by detailed  to  take  charge  of  the  guard  stationed  at  the 
Jackson  Railroad  depot.  He  will  report  to  Lieut.  James 
immediately." 

Oct.  30,  1862.     "The  Colonel  commanding  will  muster 


144 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


this  regiment  for  pay,  in  accordance  with  the  regulations. 
The  review  preceding  muster  will  be  dispensed  with.  The 
regimental  line  will  be  formed  at  8J  o'clock  a.  m.  Sol- 
diers sick  in  quarters  will  fall  in,  in  rear  of  their  com- 
panies. Commissioned  officers  will  see  that  all  the  men  of 
their  respective  commands,  not  in  the  general  hospital,  are 
present  at  the  muster.  First  sergeant  of  companies  will 
have  a  list  of  all  whose  names  appear  on  the  rolls  who  are 
absent,  and  as  their  names  [are]  called  he  will  answer, 
stating  the  cause  of  absence." 

Nov.  7,  1862,  "  First  Lieut.  John  Carroll,  Company  F, 
Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  is  relieved  from 
duty  in  that  company  and  assigned  to  duty  as  first  lieu- 
tenant of  Company  B,  of  this  regiment." 

Nov.  17,  1862.  "Lieut.  O'Brien,  commanding  Com- 
pany D,  Sir:  You  will  detail  one  corporal  and  eight 
privates  of  your  command  with  arms,  and  six  with- 
out arms,  to  attend  the  funeral  of  the  late  Private  Thomas 
O'Brien,  of  your  company,  as  a  funeral  escort.  They 
will  report  to  the  St.  James  Hospital  at  4  o'clock  p.  m. 

*     *     *     » 

Nov.  20,  1862,  "First  Lieut.  Charles  S.  Palmer,  here- 
tofore assigned  to  command  of  Company  G  of  this  regi- 
ment, having  been  detailed  for  special  service  by  Special 
Order  No.  519,  Department  of  the  Gulf,  will  be  relieved 
from  command  of  Company  G,  by  Lieut.  Fitz  Gibbons, 
who  is  relieved  from  duty  in  Company  D ;  he  will  report 
to  Lieut.  Palmer  who  will  turn  over  the  books  and  papers 
of  Company  G,  taking  receipt  for  the  same." 

Nov.  21,  1862.  "Regimental  line  will  be  formed  Sun- 
day morning  at  8  o'clock,  when  all  companies  will  appear 
in  their  best  possible  order.  Commandants  of  companies 
will  see  that  their  commands  have  their  shoes,  cartridge 
boxes,  cap  pouches,  belts,  and  waist  plates  neatly  pol- 
ished, and  that  the  clothing  and  knapsacks  are  thor- 
oughly washed,  muskets  cleaned,  cartridge  boxes  filled 
with  ammunition.  Commandants  of  companies  will 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  145 

have  a  list  of  absentees,  stating  the  reason  of  their  ab- 
sence, by  what  authority,  etc.  Extra  and  daily  duty  men 
fall  in  with  their  companies.  All  enlisted  men  sick  in 
quarters  will  fall  in,  in  rear  of  their  companies,  without 
arms.  The  knapsacks  will  be  properly  packed,  contain- 
ing greatcoat  and  blanket,  and  all  clothing  belonging  to 
the  soldier  to  be  in  his  knapsack  or  on  his  person." 

Dec.  27,  1862.  "The  following  promotions  are  hereby 
made  in  the  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers: 
Second  Lieutenant  A.  E.  Payne  to  be  first  lieutenant,  with 
rank  from  October  31,  1862;  he  is  assigned  to  duty  as 
first  lieutenant,  Company  C.  Second  Lieutenant  D. 
O'Sullivan  to  be  first  lieutenant,with  rank  [from]  Nov.  12, 
1862;  he  is  assigned  to  duty  as  first  lieutenant,  Company 
K.  Sergeant-Major  John  C.  Curtis  to  be  second  lieuten- 
ant, with  rank  from  Sept.  24,  1862 ;  he  is  assigned  as  sec- 
ond lieutenant,  Company  G.  Sergeant  Mullin  of  Com- 
pany E,  to  be  sergeant-major  vice  John  C.  Curtis.  Garry 
T.  Scott,  after  faithfully  serving  with  his  regiment  for  a 
period  of  over  fourteen  months  as  hospital  steward,  has 
resigned  that  post  and  is  appointed  first  sergeant,  Com- 
pany F." 

Dec.  30,  1862.  "First  Sergt.  Garry  T.  Scott  of 
Company  F,  Ninth  Connecticut  Volunteers,  is  hereby 
appointed  second  lieutenant  of  that  company,  subject  to 
the  approval  of  His  Excellency  Governor  Buckingham." 
Lieut.  Scott  was  subsequently  captain  of  Company  A, 
of  the  Ninth  Battalion,  C.  V. 


10 


CHAPTER  IX. 

HEAVY    LOSSES    BY    THE    NINTH    IN     1 862 LIST    OF    THE 

OFFICERS   AND    MEN    WHO    DIED   THAT   YEAR THREE 

LIEUTENANTS    AMONG    THOSE    WHO    PASSED    AWAY— 
EXTRACTS  FROM   REGIMENTAL  AND  GENERAL  ORDERS 

DURING  THE  EARLY  HALF  OF   1863 COL.   CAHILL  IN 

COMMAND   OF  THE  DEFENCES   OF  NEW  ORLEANS. 

BULLET  and  shell,  bayonet  thrust  and  sabre  cut 
are  not  the  only  perils  with  which  a  soldier  in  active 
service  has  to  contend.  There  are  many  others,  in- 
cluding that  fruitful  source  of  death  in  a  regiment — dis- 
ease. Thousands  of  officers  and  men  in  the  Civil  war 
went  through  battle  unscathed,  only  to  perish  of  sickness 
contracted  in  camp  or  on  the  march. 

The  Ninth  lost  heavily  in  this  respect.  The  terrible 
conditions  prevailing  in  the  swamps  at  Vicksburg,  Miss., 
and  other  places  cost  the  regiment  sorely.  Many  brave 
fellows  who  left  Connecticut  in  excellent  health  and  spirits 
never  came  back,  but  perished  of  disease  in  camp  or  hos- 
pital, and  their  bones  now  lie  in  Chalmette,  La.,  or  other 
places  in  the  South.  But  they  died  for  their  country  just 
as  truly  as  if  they  had  fallen  in  the  forefront  of  battle. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  officers  and  men  of  the 
Ninth  who  died1  in  the  single  year,  1862.  The  list  does 
not  include  those  killed  in  that  year.  Those  are  referred 
to  elsewhere.  The  greater  portion  of  the  following  list2 
perished  of  disease  contracted  in  the  service,  a  few  of 
wounds. 

NAMES   AND    RESIDENCES   OF   THE   OFFICERS   AND   MEN    OF 
THE  NINTH  WHO  DIED  IN   1862. 

THE  REGIMENTAL  BAND. 
Lewis  St.  V.  Hallauer,  New  Haven. 
Henry  E.  Coxall,  East  Haven. 

1  The  date  of  each  death  will  be  found  in  the  roll  toward  the  close  of  this  volume. 

2  A  few  in  this  list,  at  one  time  held  higher  rank  than  that  here  given  but  were 
reduced,  owing  to  illness,  consolidation  of  commands,  or  for  other  causes. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  147 

COMPANY  A. 

Sergeant  Joseph  Gahagan,  Derby. 

Sergeant  William  Scully,  Hartford. 

Corporal  Joseph  Kennedy,  New  Haven. 

Corporal  James  W.  B.  Robinson,  New  Haven. 

Private  John  Abbott,  New  Haven. 

Private  John  Coyle,  New  Haven. 

Private  William  Fitzgerald,  Baton  Rouge,  La.1 

Private  Thomas  Lynch,  New  Haven. 

Private  Morris  Colbert,  New  Haven. 

Private  Patrick  Lane,  New  Haven. 

Private  Patrick  Larkins,  Derby. 

Private  Patrick  Mahoney,  New  Haven. 

Private  Jesse  Hall,  New  Orleans,  La.1 

Private  Paul  Bohan,  New  Haven. 

Private  Thomas  McGrath,  New  Haven. 

Private  John  O'Berne,  New  Haven. 

Private  John  Walch,  New  Haven. 

Private  Patrick  Reynolds,  New  Haven. 

Private  Charles  Boyle,  New  Haven. 

Private  Michael  Kain,  New  Haven. 

Private  John  Meredith,  Hartford. 

Private  James  McDonald,  Waterbury. 

Private  Matthew  Ennis,  New  Haven. 

Private  John  Dillon,  New  Haven. 

COMPANY  B. 

Private  Thomas  Waldron,  Meriden. 
Private  Charles  Mulvey,  Cheshire. 
Private  Andrew  Carlin,  Meriden. 
Private  Michael  Reynolds,  2d,  Cheshire. 
Private  William  W.  Carey,  Portland. 
Private  John  Ferris,  Meriden. 
Private  John  Martin,  Hartford. 
Private  Patrick  Cain,  Meriden. 
Private  Patrick  Woods,  New  Haven. 
Private  Thomas  Harvey,  Meriden. 

1  Place  of  muster  in. 


148    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Private  Michael  Molloy,  Meriden. 
Private  Michael  Healey,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  Donohue,  Meriden. 
Private  Joseph  Harrington,  Meriden. 
Private  James  Doran,  Meriden. 

COMPANY  C. 

Lieutenant  Patrick  T.  Claffee,  Waterbury. 
Lieutenant  Henry  McKenna,  New  Haven. 
Corporal  Edward  Keegan,  New  Haven. 
Corporal  Thomas  McCormick,  New  Haven. 
Private  George  O'Connor,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  Monighan,  Norwich. 
Private  George  Barker,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  Brodderick,  New  Orleans.1 
Private  John  Marlow,  New  Haven. 
Private  Michael  Keaveney,  New  Haven. 
Private  Richard  Lauffin,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  Murphey,  Norwich. 
Private  John  Rowley,  New  Haven. 
Private  Arthur  Hughes,  New  Haven. 
Private  John  Clark,  New  Haven. 
Private  Thomas  Kearns,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  Woods,  New  Haven. 
Private  Philip  Galligan,  New  Haven. 

Private  Paul  Charbouel, . 

Private  Peter  Doyle,  New  Haven. 
Private  John  Meany,  Norwich. 
Private  John  Eagan,  New  Haven. 

COMPANY  D. 

Corporal  Charles  B.  Burton,  Bridgeport. 
Corporal  James  Henderson,  Bridgeport. 
Corporal  Luke  C.  Lackey,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Corporal  John  Ennes,  Bridgeport. 
Private  John  B.  Green,  Plymouth. 
Private  Michael  Fagan,  Bridgeport. 
Private  John  Baggs,  Bridgeport. 

1  Place  of  muster  in. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  149 

Private  Peter  Smith,  Bridgeport. 
Private  Henry  Hill,  Hartford. 
Private  Michael  Moore,  Bridgeport. 
Private  Martin  Smith,  New  Haven. 
Private  Almon  Blakeslee,  Plymouth. 
Private  James  C.  Dimon,  Bridgeport. 
Private  William  Funt,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  Michael  McGrath,  Bridgeport. 
Private  Thomas  O'Brien,  Bridgeport. 

COMPANY  E. 

Corporal  James  McMahon,  New  Haven. 
Musician  John  Burns,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Wagoner  Timothy  Ryan,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  Bush,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  Ryan,  Derby. 
Private  Richard  Burke,  New  Haven. 
Private  Michael  Scott,  New  York. 
Private  William  Clark,  New  Haven. 
Private  Ambrose  Carney,  New  Haven. 
Private  John  Maher,  Derby. 
Private  John  Hartigan,  New  Haven. 
Private  Michael  O' Burns,  New  Haven. 
Private  John  Crowley,  Derby. 
Private  James  Kehoe,  New  Haven. 
Private  Patrick  Walsh,  New  Haven. 
Private  William  Grace,  Camp  Parapet,  La.1 
Private  John  Ryan,  New  Haven. 
Private  John  R.  Burgess,  New  Haven. 

COMPANY  F. 

Sergeant  Timothy  Ryan,  Waterbury. 
Corporal  James  Tobin,  Waterbury. 
Private  Richard  Claxton,  Waterbury. 
Private  John  Green,  Waterbury. 
Private  John  McLaughlin,  Waterbury. 
Private  Patrick  Morrissey,  Waterbury. 
Private  Thomas  White,  Waterbury. 
Private  John  McPherson,  New  Orleans,  La.1 

1  Place  of  muster  in. 


i5o    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

COMPANY  G. 

Corporal  Constantine  McGuire,  Hartford. 
Wagoner  Patrick  Dailey,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  John  A.  Horton,  Hartford. 
Private  Thomas  Conner,  Manchester. 
Private  Bartholomew  Daley,  Hartford. 
Private  William  Eagan,  Southington. 
Private  John  Cruise,  Hartford. 
Private  Patrick  McAlloon,  Wethersfield. 
Private  James  Tackett,  Hartford. 
Private  John  Maher,  E'ast  Windsor. 
Private  Frank  Sutler,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  George  Frazier,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  Fred  Helen,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  Christian  Irvine,  New  Orleans,  La.1 

COMPANY  H. 

Corporal  John  Simpson,  Norwich. 
Corporal  Charles  H.  Potter,  Norwich. 
Private  Patrick  Weldon,  Norwich. 
Private  Roger  Tyghe,  New  London. 
Private  Daniel  H.  Brown,  Norwich. 
Private  Daniel  Sullivan,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  Peter  Shaughness,  Danbury. 
Private  Walter  Hussey,  Griswold. 
Private  Daniel  Kennedy,  Danbury. 
Private  Stephen  Sanford,  Portland. 
Private  John  Brown,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  John  Kelley,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  John  Kerley,  Nonvich. 
Private  Frederick  Potter,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  Patrick  Reynolds,  New  Haven. 

COMPANY  I. 

Corporal  Edward  Hawley,  Monroe. 
Corporal  Lewis  H.  Johnson,  Burlington. 
Private  Albert  Alaby,  Bridgeport. 
Private  Seth  Robertson,  Bridgeport. 
Private  Abram  A.  Warner,  Woodbury. 
Private  John  Smith,  New  Hartford. 


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WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863  151 

Private  William  Sullivan,  Lowell,  Mass. 
Private  John  F.  Roberts,  New  Hartford. 
Private  Legrand  Todd,  Plymouth. 
Private  Leverett  Gladding,  Berlin. 
Private  Henry  Hudson,  Hartford. 
Private  Peter  Finkle,  Salisbury. 
Private  Thomas  O'Brien,  Bridgeport. 
Private  Martin  Kilgarifr,  Derby. 
Private  Jesse  L.  Calkins,  Monroe. 
Private  Joseph  L.  Calkins,  Monroe. 
Private  Elias  Hayes,  Hartford. 
Private  John  Coyne,  Bridgeport. 
Private  George  W.  Horton,  Berlin. 
Private  Peter  Fenton,  Lowell,  Mass. 
Private  George  Hillyer,  Sheffield,  Mass. 
Private  James  Hillyer,  Sheffield,  Mass. 

COMPANY  K. 

Lieutenant  Frederick  M.  Fairchild,  Bridgeport. 
Sergeant  Thomas  B.  Tallmadge,  Simsbury. 
Corporal  Peter  McFarland,  Fairneld. 
Corporal  Edward  Lyon,  Greenfield. 
Corporal  Edward  P.  Prime,  Stafford. 
Musician  Charles  T.  Patchen,  Danbury. 
Private  David  A.  Slawson,  Stratford. 
Private  Joseph  Schwenter,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  Michael  Downey,  Derby. 
Private  John  A.  Stafford,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  Jeremiah  Sullivan,  Hartford. 
Private  Jeremiah  Wells,  Bridgeport. 
Private  John  J.  Lane,  Bethel. 
Private  George  S.  Dikeman,  Danbury. 
Private  David  Stillson,  New  Haven. 
Private  James  McClune,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  Herman  Rowland,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  William  J.  McCame,  New  Haven.1 
Private  Peter  Flamandey,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  Robert  Read,  Waterbury. 


Place  of  muster  in. 


I5 2    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Of  the  foregoing  we  may  say,  in  the  words  of  Theodore 
O'Hara: 

"  The  muffled  drum's  sad  roll  has  beat 

The  soldier's  last  tattoo ; 
No  more  on  life's  parade  shall  meet 

That  brave  and  fallen  few. 
On  fame's  eternal  camping  ground 

Their  silent  tents  are  spread, 
And  glory  guards,  with  solemn  round, 

The  bivouac  of  the  dead. 

"  No  rumor  of  the  foe's  advance, 

Now  swells  upon  the  wind ; 
No  troubled  thoughts  at  midnight  haunts 

Of  loved  ones  left  behind ; 
No  vision  of  the  morrow's  strife 

The  warrior's  dream  alarms ; 
No  braying  horn  nor  screaming  fife 

At  dawn  shall  call  to  arms. 


"  The  neighing  troop,  the  flashing  blade, 

The  bugle's  stirring  blast; 
The  charge,  the  dreadful  cannonade, 

The  din  and  shout  are  passed ; 
Nor  war's  wild  note  nor  glory's  peal 

Shall  thrill  with  fierce  delight 
Those  breasts  that  nevermore  may  feel 

The  rapture  of  the  fight." 

As  will  be  seen  from  the  foregoing  list,  the  Ninth  lost 
three  lieutenants,  by  death,  in  1862,  namely:  Lieut.  Fred- 
erick M.  Fairchild,  of  Company  K,  who  died  July  21 ; 
Lieut.  Henry  McKenna,  of  Company  C,  Sept.  24;  and 
Lieut.  Patrick  T.  Claffee,  of  Company  C,  Oct.  5.  Lieut. 
Claffee  was  of  Waterbury.  His  body  was  brought  home 
and  was  honored  with  a  military  funeral,,  a  great  con- 
course following  the  remains  to  the  place  of  interment, — 
St.  Joseph's  cemetery.  The  body  of  Lieut.  McKenna 
was  brought  home  to  New  Haven  and  also  interred  with 
impressive  exercises. 


W 'A R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  153 

Regimental  Order  No.  49  was  issued  to  the  Ninth,  Jan. 
5,  1863,  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  Fitz  Gibbon,  then  in  com- 
mand of  the  regiment.  It  provided  that  "In  consequence 
of  Adjutant  Kattenstroth  being  detailed  as  acting  assist- 
ant adjutant  of  the  brigade  commanded  by  Col.  Cahill, 
Second  Lieutenant  John  C.  Curtis,  of  Company  G,  is 
therefore  appointed  acting  adjutant  of  the  Ninth  regi- 
ment. He  will  be  obeyed  and  respected  as  such."  In 
Regimental  Order  No.  58,  issued  Jan.  22,  1863,  it  was 
provided  that  "Church  call,  on  Sunday"  was  to  be  at  n 
a.  m. 

Regimental  Order  No.  59,  issued  at  New  Orleans,  Jan. 
26,  1863,  mentions  a  number  of  appointments,  to  wit: 
"Sergeant  Thomas  Corbin,  of  Company  F,  Ninth  regi- 
ment, Connecticut  Volunteers,  is  hereby  appointed  quar- 
termaster of  said  regiment,  vice  Lieutenant  N.  P.  Ben- 
nett, resigned.  The  above  appointment  will  take  effect 
from  the  *  *  *  date  of  Lieutenant  N.  P.  Bennett's 
resignation.  The  regiment  being  deficient  in  officers,  the 
following  sergeants  are  hereby  appointed  as  acting  sec- 
ond lieutenants  to  take  place  from  Feb.  I,  1863:  First 
Sergeant  William  O'Keefe,  Company  B,  vice  Lieutenant 
John  McCusker  discharged  Oct.  29.  1862;  First  Ser- 
geant Patrick  Ingoldsby,  of  Company  C,  vice  Lieutenant 
Henry  McKenna  deceased  *  *  *  ;  First  Sergeant 
Joseph  H.  Lawler,  of  Company  F,  vice  Lieutenant  Addis 
E.  Payne  promoted;  First  Sergeant  Andrew  Cole,  of 
Company  K,  vice  Acting  Second  Lieutenant  Samuel 
Davison  reduced  to  the  ranks.  Private  Robert  Kerr  is 
appointed  quartermaster  sergeant,  vice  Quartermaster 
Sergeant  Henry  C.  Wright  promoted  in  Third  Louisiana 
Native  Guards,  appointment  to  take  effect  from  2Oth  Jan- 
uary, 1863.  All  the  above  acting  appointments  for  com- 
panies are  subject  to  the  approval  of  His  Excellency 
Governor  Buckingham,  also  [to  that  of]  the  Colonel  of 
the  regiment."  This  was  issued  by  the  Lieut.  Colonel  of 
the  Ninth. 


154 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 


Jan.  31,  1863,  it  was  ordered  that  "Private  Joseph  Mc- 
Girk, of  Company  H,  is  hereby  transferred  to  Company 
F;  he  will  report  to  Lieutenant  G.  T.  Scott  for  duty. 
Acting  Lieutenant  J.  H.  Lawler  will  furnish  Lieutenant 
Scott  with  Private  McGifFs  descriptive  list." 

Among  the  other  orders  issued  at  New  Orleans,  in 
1863,  were  the  following: 

Jan.  i,  1863.  "So  much  of  Special  Orders,  No.  593, 
Paragraph  n,  from  these  headquarters,  as  directs  Major 
Frederick  Frye,  Ninth  Connecticut  volunteers,  to  report 
for  duty  to  Colonel  S.  B.  Holabird,  Chief  Quartermaster, 
is  revoked."  (By  command  of  Major  Gen.  Banks). 

Jan.  19,  1863.  "Leave  of  absence  of  twenty  days,  with 
permission  to  apply  to  the  Adjutant  General's  office  for 
an  extension  of  two  months,  is  granted  Colonel  Thomas 
W.  Cahill,  Ninth  Connecticut  Volunteers."  (By  com- 
mand of  Major  Gen.  Banks). 

Jan.  30,  1863.  "Private  Charles  Montague,  Company 
E,  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  will  report 
for  duty  to  Col.  E.  J.  Beckwith,  Chief  Commissary,  De- 
partment of  the  Gulf."  (By  command  of  Major  Gen. 
Banks). 

Feb.  i,  1863.  "The  order  assigning  the  Ninth  regi- 
ment, Connecticut  Volunteers,  to  Emory's  Division  is 
rescinded,  and  the  regiment  is  hereby  assigned  to  the 
Second  Brigade  of  Sherman's  Division."  (By  command 
of  Major  Gen.  Banks). 

Special  Order  No.  29,  from  Gen.  T.  W.  Sherman,  read 
as  follows : 

HEADQUARTERS,  DEFENCES  OF  NEW  ORLEANS, 

NEW  ORLEANS,  Feb.  3,  1863. 
Special  Order 

No.  29. 

The  detachment  of  Company  H,  Ninth  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  now  on  duty  in  the  city,  will  rejoin  their  com- 
pany and  be  replaced  by  the  troops  commanded  by  Colo- 
nel Farr.  An  additional  company  of  the  Ninth  Connecti- 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  155 

cut  will  be  detailed  to  Captain  Sawyer.  The  company 
will  take  post  at  the  batteries  on  the  Mexican  Gulf  rail- 
road. They  will  take  charge  of  the  batteries  and  picquet 
at  the  Lake  shore  of  Proctorville. 

By  order  of 
BRIG.  GENERAL  T.  W.  SHERMAN. 

WICKHAM  HOFFMAN, 
A.  A.  Gen. 

May  2,  1863.  "Captain  L.  O'Brien,  Provost  Marshal 
of  Parish  of  Saint  James,  is  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  administer  oaths  of  office  required  by  law." 
(By  order  of  Brig.  Gen.  G.  F.  Shepley,  Military  Governor 
of  Louisiana). 

July  28,  1863.  "Captain  O'Brien:  You  will  proceed 
to  Ship  Island  with  the  paroled  U.  S.  soldiers  in  your 
charge  to-morrow  by  steamer  *  *  *  and  turn  them 
over  to  the  officer  in  command,  with  a  roll  of  the  names 
of  the  soldiers." 

July  29,  1863.  "Captain  O'Brien:  You  will  bring  on 
your  return  to  this  city  [New  Orleans],  from  Ship  Island, 
such  paroled  prisoners  as  may  be  attached  to  the  28th 
Maine  Volunteers  in  order  that  they  may  join  their  regi- 


The  following  orders  wTere  issued  at  New  Orleans  by 
Lieut.  Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gibbon  of  the  Ninth : 

Feb.  3,  1863.  "All  drummers  belonging  to  the  regi- 
ment report  on  receipt  of  this  order  to  John  Healy,  drum 
major,  Lafayette  Square,  New  Orleans,  for  instruction." 

Feb.  21,  1863.  "Drummer  Thomas  McGuire,  of  Com- 
pany E,  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  is 
hereby  transferred  from  that  company  to  Company  A  of 
this  regiment  to  take  effect  Feb.  21,  1863.  Lieut.  Sheri- 
dan will  furnish  Capt.  Williams  with  McGuire's  descrip- 
tive list,  and  account  of  pay  and  clothing." 


156    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Feb.  24,  1863.  "Drummer  John  Healy,  of  Company 
B,  is  hereby  appointed  principal  musician  of  the  regi- 
ment to  take  rank  from  the  I2th  of  January,  1863." 

March  2,  1863.  "In  pursuance  of  Special  Order  No. 
26,  the  commanding  officers  of  Companies  C  and  D, 
Ninth  Connecticut  Volunteers,  will  forward  to  these 
headquarters,  description  of  all  men  who  have  enlisted 
into  Company  C,  Second  U.  S.  Artillery ;  to  be  in  by  10 
o'clock  a.  m.,  3d  inst." 

March  5,  1863.  "In  accordance  with  orders  from 
Headquarters,  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division,  the 
companies  of  this  regiment  will  have  on  hand  at  once: 
one  hundred  rounds  of  ammunition  per  man  and  be  ready 
to  move  at  the  shortest  notice.  It  is  also  ordered  that 
every  man  have  on  hand  at  once  the  following  articles : 
one  cap,  one  blanket,  one  pair  of  shoes,  two  pairs  of 
drawers,  one  haversack,  one  greatcoat,  two  flannel  shirts, 
one  blouse,  one  knapsack,  one  canteen."  Such  of  these 
articles  as  were  not  worn  or  carried  upon  the  person  were 
to  be  "packed  in  the  knapsack." 

March  15,  1863.  "In  pursuance  of  Special  Order  No. 
26,  Captain  Patrick  Garvey,  of  Company  B,  Ninth  regi- 
ment, Connecticut  Volunteers,  will  detail  from  his  com- 
mand: One  (i)  lieutenant,  one  (i)  sergeant,  one  (i) 
corporal,  and  twelve  (12)  privates  to  relieve  the  guards 
at  the  Mechanics'  Institution;  one  (i)  sergeant,  one  (i) 
corporal,  and  six  (6)  privates  to  the  United  States  Mint ; 
one  (i)  sergeant,  one  (i)  corporal,  and  six  (6)  privates  at 
Marine  Hospital;  one  (i)  sergeant,  one  (i)  corporal,  and 
seven  (7)  privates  at  St.  James'  Hospital."  He  will  oc- 
cupy house  58  Barr street,  and  make  it  the  head- 
quarters of  the  company." 

March  18,  1863.     "In  compliance  with  Special  Order, 

*  *  *  Defences  of  New  Orleans,  March  18,  1863, 
Company  B.  Ninth  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volun- 
teers, will  immediately  report  to  Major  Frye  at  Hickock's 
Landing.  The  Quartermaster  will  furnish  the  necessary 
transportation." 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  157 

April  4,  1863.  "In  compliance  with  Special  Orders 
No.  46,  Headquarters,  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division, 
April  4,  1863,  Companies  E  and  G  [of  the  Ninth  C.  V.] 
will  be  relieved  from  Bayou  St.  John,  and  Lake  Point,  by 
Companies  A  and  F,  Forty-second  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teers. The  Companies  E  and  G  will  take  post  at  the  U.  S. 
Barracks.  The  quartermaster  will  furnish  the  necessary 
transportation.  Captain  Wright  on  being  relieved  will 
turn  over  all  orders  and  property  to  Captain  Cogswell. 
This  order  will  be  complied  with  immediately." 

April  7,  1863.  "The  following  named  enlisted  men  of 
this  regiment  are  hereby  detailed  as  hospital  attendants : 
August  Rahl,1  Company  A;  Peter  Corcoran,  Company 
A;  James  McKeon,  Company  C;  John  Riley,  Company 
E.  John  Gillis,  of  Company  D,  [is]  detailed  as  clerk  at 
regimental  headquarters ;  and  F.  Smedel,  Company  I, 
as  assistant,  commissary  department." 

April  12,  1863.  "  *  *  *  Corporal  James  Gibbons, 
of  Company  I,  Ninth  regiment,  Conn.  Vols.,  is 
hereby  detailed  for  extra  duty  as  expressman  between 
these  headquarters  and  those  of  the  commanding  officer 
at  or  near  Manchac  Pass.  He  will  report  immediately  to 
Capt.  L.  W.  Perce,  A.  Q.  M.,  at  these  headquarters." 

April  27,  1863.  "Private  August  Rahl,  of  Company 
H,  is  appointed  hospital  steward  of  this  regiment,  vice 
Garry  T.  Scott  promoted.  The  above  appointment  will 
take  effect  from  Dec.  20,  1862.  *  *  *  " 

April  27,  1863.  "In  compliance  with  orders  received 
from  Headquarters,  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division, 
the  usual  muster  and  inspection  of  this  regiment  will  take 
place  on  Friday,  May  i,  instead  of  April  30.  The  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  having  appointed  the  3Oth  of 
April  as  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer,  the  regiment  will  be 
mustered  under  the  following  order :  Troops  at  the  U. 
S.  Barracks  by  Major  E.  S.  Clark ;  the  portion  of  the 
regiment  in  Lafayette  Square,  Algiers  and  [at  the]  Mexi- 

1  Appears  elsewhere  as  Ruhl. 


158     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

can  Gulf  railroad,  by  Capt.  E.  M.  Curtis ;  the  three  com- 
panies at  and  near  Manchac  Pass  will  be  mustered  by 
order  of  Col.  Clark,  Sixth  Michigan  Volunteers." 

April  29,  1863.  "In  compliance  with  Special  Orders 
No.  59,  State  department,  Ira  C.  Winsor  reported  to  the 
headquarters  of  the  Ninth  Regiment,  Conn.  Vols.,  at  New 
Orleans,  La.,  on  or  about  the  7th  day  of  April,  1863,  as 
second  assistant  surgeon,  duly  commissioned  by  His 
Excellency,  Governor  Buckingham,  as  first  lieutenant, 
to  take  rank  from  the  2d  clay  of  March,  1863.  He  will, 
therefore,  be  respected  accordingly,  and  report  to  Doctor 
Gallagher,  Surgeon  of  the  Ninth  regiment,  Conn.  Vols." 

April    29,    1863.  Lewis    H.    Goodman, 

Twelfth  Conn.  Vols.,  Private,  Company  A,  reported  to 
the  headquarters  of  the  Ninth  regiment,  Conn.  Vols.,  on 
or  about  the  29th  day  of  April,  1863,  duly  commissioned 
by  His  Excellency  Governor  Buckingham,  as  second 
lieutenant  of  Company  K,  Ninth  regiment,  Conn.  Vols. 
The  said  company  having  its  full  complement  of  officers, 
Lieut.  Goodman  is,  therefore,  assigned  to  Company  A. 

May  5,  1863.  "The  following  officers  [have]  been  pro- 
moted and  assigned  as  follows :  Second  Lieutenant  James 
W.  Graham,  Company  I,  to  [be]  first  lieutenant  same 
company,  vice  Lieutenant  Charles  S.  Palmer  promoted 
Captain1  [of]  Company  F;  Sergeant  David  C.  Warner, 
Company  I,  to  be  acting  second  lieutenant  of  said  com- 
pany, vice  Lieutenant  Graham  promoted ;  Sergeant  Major 
Michael  Mullins  promoted  second  lieutenant  and  as- 
signed to  Company  E  ;  Sergeant  Thomas  Wilson  of  Com- 
pany K,  is  appointed  Sergeant  Major,  vice  Mullins  pro- 
moted. *  *  *  " 

May  10,  1863.  "Lieut.  John  C.  Curtis,  of  Company  G, 
Ninth  regiment,  Conn.  Vols.,  is  hereby  appointed  acting 
adjutant,  in  consequence  of  Adjutant  Kattenstroth  being 
detailed.  Lieut.  Michael  Mullins  of  Company  E,  is 
hereby  assigned  to  Company  G,  and  will  report  to  Capt. 
William  Wright  for  duty." 

1  Not  mustered  as  such. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  159 

May  1 1,  1863.  "  *  *  *  Lieut.  James  Cahill,  com- 
manding Company  D,  on  being  relieved  by  a  company  of 
[the]  Twenty-sixth  Mass.  Vols.,  will  at  once  concentrate 
his  company  and  move  via  Jackson  R.  R.,  to  Manchac 
Pass  and  there  report  to  Major  Frye,  Ninth  Conn.  Vols." 

June  25,  1863.  "Sergt.  Charles  W.  Alcott,  of  Company 
I,  is  hereby  detailed  to  take  charge  of  all  detached 
parties  of  convalescent  troops,  and  Confederate  soldiers 
who  have  taken  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United 
States.  He  will  see  to  their  quarters  and  rations." 

July  2,  1863.  "Second  Lieut.  John  C.  Curtis,  of  Com- 
pany G,  is  hereby  relieved  as  acting  adjutant  of  the  regi- 
ment, and  will  report  to  his  company.  First  Lieut.  James 
W.  Graham,  of  Company  I,  is  hereby  appointed  acting 
adjutant,  vice  Second  Lieut.  John  C.  Curtis  relieved." 

July  3,  1863.  "Robert  Kerr,  of  Company  F,  is  hereby 
detailed  as  clerk  at  regimental  headquarters." 

July  9,  1863.  "In  consequence  of  the  increased  number 
of  patients  in  [the]  Regimental  hospital,  Privates  James 
S.  Olmstead,  of  Company  I,  and  Patrick  Campbell,  of 
Company  A,  are  hereby  detailed  as  hospital  attendants." 

July  20,  1863.  "Corporal  William  Andrews,  of  Com- 
pany K,  is  hereby  appointed  clerk  at  regimental  head- 
quarters, vice  John  Gillis  promoted." 

On  May  31,  1863,  the  organization  of  the  Second 
Brigade  of  the  Second  Division  of  the  Nineteenth  Army 
Corps,  was  as  follows,  (Defences  of  New  Orleans) : 

SECOND  BRIGADE. 

Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill,  (Ninth  Connecticut  Infantry), 
commanding. 

Ninth  Connecticut. 

Twenty-eighth  Maine  (four  companies). 
Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts. 
Forty-second  Massachusetts. 
Forty-seventh  Massachusetts. 


CHAPTER  X. 

THE  NINTH  RECEIVES  MANY  SOLDIERS  WHO  HAD  SERVED 
UNDER  GEN.  TWIGGS A  HIGH  TRIBUTE  TO  THE  REGI- 
MENT FROM  GEN.  BUTLER IMPORTANT  MOVEMENTS 

IN   WHICH    OFFICERS   AND    MEN    OF   THE   NINTH    PAR- 
TICIPATE  DEATH    OF    CORPORAL    JOHN    P.    COEN    OF 

WATERBURY A      CAPTURE      BY      SERGEANT        PHILIP 

REILLY VARIOUS  ORDERS  TO  THE  REGIMENT. 

THE  NINTH  had  received  a  number  of  accessions 
to  its  ranks  in  New  Orleans,  mainly  in  1862. 
Many  of  those  thus  enlisting  had  served  in  the  old  Regu- 
lar army  under  Gen.  David  E.  Twiggs.  The  latter  was  a 
native  of  Georgia,  and  entered  the  service  as  captain  in 
1812.  He  became  a  major  of  infantry  in  the  year  1814, 
and  in  1836  was  a  colonel  of  dragoons. 

He  commanded  a  brigade  in  the  war  with  Mexico  and 
rendered  distinguished  service  at  the  battles  of  Palo  Alto 
and  Resaca  de  la  Palma.  On  June  30,  1846,  he  became 
a  brigadier  general  and  for  gallantry  at  Monterey  was 
breveted  major  general.  He  had  command  of  a  division, 
under  Scott,  in  1847  and  the  next  year  he  was  made  civil 
and  military  governor  of  Vera  Cruz.  Early  in  1861, 
Twiggs  was  in  command  of  the  U.  S.  troops  in  the  De- 
partment of  Texas,  and  betrayed  his  trust,  thus  blighting 
his  long  and  honorable  military  career.  On  Feb.  16, 
1 86 1,  he  treacherously  surrendered  to  the  Confederate 
authorities  in  Texas,  all  the  U.  S.  troops  in  that  State, 
numbering  about  2,500,  together  with  the  stores  and 
munitions  of  war  valued  at  $1,200,000.  He  also  sur- 
rendered the  forts  in  his  Department.  He  was  forthwith 
dismissed  "from  the  Army  of  the  United  States  for 
treachery  to  the  flag  of  his  country." 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  Z6i 

He  was  given  a  position  of  prominence  in  the  Confed- 
erate army  and  was,  for  a  time,  in  command  of  the  rebel 
forces  in  New  Orleans.  He  resigned  this  place  late  in 
1861.  The  U.  S.  troops  whom  he  had  betrayed  into  the 
hands  of  the  Confederates  in  Texas  remained  loyal  to  the 
Union,  as  did  most  of  their  officers.  They  were  allowed 
to  leave  Texas.  Some  of  them  subsequently  enlisted  into 
the  Ninth  Connecticut  and  were  the  accessions  referred 
to  above. 

Gen.  Butler  pays  the  following  tribute  to  the  Ninth : 

''When  I  occupied  New  Orleans  I  wanted  to  encamp  a 
regiment  in  Lafayette  Square,  a  small  park  in  the  centre 
of  the  city.  The  streets  around  it  were  inhabited  by  the 
best  families.  I  chose  the  Ninth  Connecticut.  They  re- 
mained in  camp  about  three  months,  and  so  well  did  they 
conduct  themselves  that  when  I  was  about  to  move  them 
elsewhere  and  put  another  regiment  in  their  stead,  *  * 

*  I  had  a  very  large  petition  presented  to  me  of  all 
the  neighbors  of  their  camp  to  have  them  remain.  Their 
conduct  was  so  exemplary,  their  care  of  the  children  who 
went  to  play  in  the  park  so  tender  and  kind,  that  the  in- 
habitants hoped  that  I  would  allow  them  to  stay,  as  they 
did  not  think  I  could  send  them  another  regiment  that 
would  please  them  so  well." 

In  another  place,  referring  to  this  incident,  Gen.  Butler 
says :  "I  told  them  I  had  none  better,  but  I  thought  I 
had  one  as  good,  so  the  order  was  executed.  But  the 
Irishmen  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  were  like  the  Irishmen 
in  all  armies  in  all  countries,  very  excellent  soldiers." 

Corporal  John  P.  Coen,  of  Company  F,  was  accident- 
ally killed  May  27,  1863,  at  Kennerville,  La.  His  death 
cast  a  gloom  over  the  company  by  every  member  of 
which  he  was  highly  esteemed.  He  belonged  in  Water- 
bury,  Ct.,  and  had  enlisted  Sept.  16,  1861.  The  circum- 
stances attending  his  death  were  as  follows :  He  and  his 
company  were  ordered  to  proceed  into  New  Orleans, 
ii 


1 62     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

On  May  26,  1863,  with  a  detachment  of  ten  men  he  went 
to  the  city,  the  rest  of  the  company  expecting  to  go  the 
day  following.  In  the  meantime,  however,  the  order  was 
countermanded  and  the  detachment  in  the  city  was 
ordered  to  return.  They  accordingly  left  New  Orleans 
May  27.  The  train  stopped  for  a  short  time  at  Kenner- 
ville  and  Corporal  Coen  and  a  number  of  others  got  off 
for  a  little  exercise  and  to  rest  themselves.  Suddenly, 
the  train  started  and  while  the  Corporal  was  attempt- 
ing to  get  aboard,  he  slipped  and  fell  outside  the  track, 
striking  on  his  head.  Death  resulted.  When  his 
brother,  Corporal  Michael  P.  Coen,  of  the  same  company, 
received  information  of  the  fatality,  he  was  twenty-seven 
miles  away,  but  immediately  started  for  the  scene  and 
took  charge  of  the  body.  The  latter  was  conveyed  to 
New  Orleans  and  given  a  soldier's  burial  at  Chalmette. 
A  braver,  truer  defender  of  the  Union  never  lived  than 
Corporal  John  P.  Coen. 

An  officer  of  Company  C,  of  the  Ninth,  kept  a  mem- 
orandum of  the  company's  movements  during  the  war. 
A  few  extracts  therefrom  are  here  given : 

"Oct.  31,  1862,  to  Dec.  31,  1862.  The  company  has 
been  constantly  with  its  regiment  since  last  muster  until 
Dec.  4,  '62,  when  the  company  was  ordered  on  detached 
service  to  Lake  End,  La.  On  Dec.  13,  one  sergeant  and 
twelve  privates  went  aboard  the  U.  S.  gunboat  New 
London  and  proceeded  to  Furnier  and  Madisonville  on  an 
expedition  against  guerrillas.  Returned  Dec.  15,  after 
driving  in  the  pickets  of  the  enemy. 

"Dec.  31,  1862,  to  Feb.  28,  1863.  The  company  has 
been  on  detached  service  since  last  muster  at  Lake  End ; 
made  several  important  captures  of  parties  attempting  to 
run  the  blockade. 

"April  30,  1863,  to  June  30,  1863.  On  May  26  this 
company  was  sent  to  New  Orleans  for  special  duty ;  re- 
mained there  till  June ;  thence  proceeded,  with  four  other 


CORPORAL  JOHN  P.  COEN. 
(A  good  type  of  the  Union  soldier  in  active  service). 


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companies  of  the  Ninth,  on  an  expedition  to  Bonita  Sta- 
tion, La. ;  remained  there  until  June  22  ;  proceeded  thence 
to  Bayou  La  Fourche  where  the  company  had  a  brisk 
engagement  with  the  enemy ;  three  men  wounded.  The 
expedition  then  returned  to  New  Orleans. 

"Aug.  31,  1863,  to  Oct.  31,  1863.  The  company  in  La- 
fayette Square,  New  Orleans,  since  last  muster.  One 
sergeant  and  eight  men  were  detailed  to  serve  on  Signal 
Corps  by  Special  Order  No.  181,  Headquarters,  Depart- 
ment of  the  Gulf.  One  sergeant,  two  corporals  and  eight 
men  sent  North  as  guard  to  prisoners,  by  Orders  193-203, 
Headquarters,  Second  Brigade,  Fourth  Division.  Lieut. 
Payne  on  detached  service." 

Sergt.  Philip  Reilly,  of  Company  E,  modestly  narrates 
an  incident  in  which  he  participated.  In  the  winter  of 
1863,  he  was  in  command  of  a  detachment  of  his  com- 
pany, stationed  at  Bay  St.  John.  One  evening  while  out 
reconnoitering  with  Corporal  Ryan,  the  two  heard  an 
unusual  sound.  Listening  intently,  they  became  satisfied 
that  it  was  caused  by  heavy  wagons.  Sergt.  Ryan  and 
his  companion  concealed  themselves  until  the  wagons  had 
reached  a  point  opposite,  when  they  sprang  from  their 
hiding  place  and  sternly  called  to  the  drivers  to  "Halt 
and  surrender!"  The  demand  was  promptly  complied 
with.  An  investigation  disclosed  the  fact,  that  the  Ser- 
geant and  his  friend  had  captured  two  heavily  laden 
wagons  with  three  able-bodied  men  in  charge.  "The 
next  step,"  writes  Sergt.  Reilly,  "was  to  decide  what 
to  do  with  our  prisoners.  We  reached  a  decision 
promptly,  and  took  them  to  Lakeport,  a  distance  of  about 
three  miles  over  a  lonely  road.  As  we  had  nothing  but 
our  side  arms,  we  had  to  be  very  watchful.  After  reach- 
ing Lakeport,  we  awoke  Capt.  Sheridan,  and  turned  over 
to  him  our  prisoners  and  the  wagons.  The  contents  of 
the  latter  proved  to  be  quite  valuable  and  consisted  of 
medicine,  clothing  and  whiskey  intended  for  the  Con- 
federates across  the  Lake." 


X64    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Sergt.  Reilly,  just  mentioned,  while  in  command,  in 
March,  1863,  of  an  outpost  at  Bayou  St.  John,  partici- 
pated in  the  capture  of  a  blockade  runner.  She  had 
aboard  a  large  quantity  of  goods,  including  over  $2,000,- 
ooo  in  Confederate  paper  money  which  was  being  taken 
to  Richmond  for  the  signature  of  the  Confederate  treas- 
urer. The  bills  had  been  made  in  Europe  and  brought 
to  New  Orleans  by  rebel  sympathizers. 

When  Gen.  Beauregard's  wife  died  in  New  Orleans, 
her  brother  and  some  other  relatives  called  upon  Gen. 
Banks.  They  spoke  to  him  concerning  the  funeral  ar- 
rangements, and  explained  that  if  a  sympathetic  demon- 
stration took  place,  they  would  not  be  responsible  in  case 
of  a  clash  with  U.  S.  troops.  Gen.  Banks  referred  the 
callers  to  the  provost  marshal,  Gen.  James  Bowen.  The 
latter  called  in  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  of  the  Ninth, 
and  introducing  him  to  the  delegation,  left  them  to  com- 
plete the  arrangements  for  the  funeral.  It  was  decided 
that  the  presence  of  troops  would  not  be  necessary.  On 
the  day  of  the  funeral,  Capt.  O'Brien,  in  full  uniform, 
rode  in  an  open  carriage  with  a  relative  of  Mrs.  Beaure- 
gard,  from  the  house  to  the  cathedral.  A  requiem  High 
Mass  was  celebrated  at  the  latter  place.  Every  seat  in 
the  cathedral  was  occupied,  and  the  vast  concourse  inside 
and  out,  evidenced  by  their  presence  the  esteem  in  which 
the  deceased  lady  was  held.  Capt.  O'Brien  also  accom- 
panied the  funeral  cortege  from  the  cathedral  to  the 
steamboat  and  so  on  to  where  the  interment  took  place. 

An  officer  of  the  Ninth,  writing  in  March,  1863,  from 
Pass  Manchac,  Lake  Maurepas,  La.,  gives  the  following 
interesting  accounts  of  some  events  then  transpiring: 
"For  several  days  past  arrangements  had  been  made  for 
an  expedition  across  Lake  Maurepas.  This  was,  as  far 
as  I  am  able  to  ascertain,  to  annoy  the  enemy  by  making 
an  attack  on  whatever  Confederate  forces  might  be  sta- 
tioned at  the  different  villages  along  the  neighboring 
rivers.  By  so  doing,  the  rebels  would  be  obliged  to  send 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  ^5 

re-enforcements  from  Port  Hudson  to  the  several  sta- 
tions, thus  weakening  that  point.  By  this  means,  the 
capture  of  Port  Hudson,  by  Farragut's  fleet  and  Banks' 
forces,  would  be  assisted.  At  9  o'clock  on  the  morning 
of  March  22,  the  Second  New  York  zouaves,  numbering 
about  400  men,  arrived  at  the  Lake  and  were  immedi- 
ately ordered  to  embark  on  board  several  schooners  that 
were  in  waiting.  A  12-pounder  rifled  gun  was  placed 
aboard  one  of  the  schooners,  and  a  similar  gun  on  a 
steamer  present.  These  guns  were  manned  by  men  of 
Companies  C  and  F,  of  the  Ninth,  all  under  the  charge 
of  Lieut.  Payne.  A  U.  S.  yacht  and  the  gunboat 
Baritaria,  being  short  of  men,  a  call  was  made  for  some 
from  our  regiment  which  call  was  complied  with,  and  the 
order  was  given  to  start. 

"I  asked  permission  to  accompany  the  expedition,  the 
same  was  granted  and  by  invitation  of  Capt.  Spear  I  went 
aboard  the  yacht  just  mentioned.  About  noon,  the  gun- 
boat got  under  way  and  started  for  a  station  where  the 
captain  had  been  ordered  to  communicate  with  Col.  Clark 
of  the  Sixth  Michigan  regiment  who1  was  to  march  up  the 
Jackson  railroad  to  Pass  Manchac.  The  remainder  of 
the  fleet  followed.  We  had  a  very  rough  passage  across 
the  lake.  The  schooners  rolled  and  tossed  and  even  the 
steamer  mentioned  had  a  hard  time  of  it.  One  of  her 
smokestacks  was  blown  down.  The  boys  seemed  to  enjoy 
the  trip,  however,  the  zouaves  rendering  their  favorite  war 
songs  during  the  passage.  We  arrived  off  Pass  Manchac 
about  5  p.  m.,  and  there  found  Col.  Clark  with  detach- 
ments of  the  Sixth  Michigan,  Twenty-fourth  Maine, 
Fourteenth  Maine  and  one  company  of  the  i7/th  New 
York.  The  fleet  anchored  for  the  night. 

"The  N.  Y.  Zouaves  commenced  landing  on  the  morn- 
ing of  March  23,  and  marched  up  the  railroad.  Soon 
there  was  an  encounter  with  rebel  pickets  and  one  man 
was  killed  at  this  point.  The  rebels  fled.  Our  troops 
found  two  schooners,  loaded  with  cotton,  and  took  a 


1 66    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

number  of  prisoners.  About  4  o'clock  March  23,  the 
remainder  of  our  troops  were  conveyed  up  the  river  and 
landed  at  Wadesboro  that  evening.  Skirmishers  were 
thrown  out  and  soon  discovered  the  rebel  pickets.  There 
was  sharp  firing  on  both  sides,  the  rebels  falling  back. 
Our  forces  occupied  Wadesboro  and  Ponchatoula,  La., 
March  24,  secured  the  telegraph  station,  postoffice  and 
commissary  house,  burned  the  rebel  camp,  and  secured 
a  number  of  rifles,  swords,  etc.  Two  companies  were 
sent  out  to  destroy  the  bridge  between  Ponchatoula  and 
Camp  Moore. 

"During  the  engagement  with  the  enemy,  there  were 
wounded  on  our  side  Capt.  Dodge  and  three  men  of  the 
1 77th  New  York  and  three  of  the  New  York  Zouaves. 
On  the  rebel  side,  their  commander  and  about  a  dozen 
men  were  wounded  and  one  man  killed." 

On  Dec.  6,  1863,  Capt.  John  G.  Healy  and  Lieut.  John 
Carroll,  with  Company  C,  of  the  Ninth,  were  sent  to  Com- 
pany Canal,  La.,  where  was  stationed  a  battalion  of  cav- 
alry, comprising  250  negro  soldiers  and  ten  white  officers. 
The  negro  soldiers  were  committing  depredations  and  ter- 
rorizing the  whites  in  and  about  that  section  of  country. 
Their  officers  had  no  control  over  them.  Company  C,  of 
the  Ninth,  was  kept  under  cover  while  Capt.  Healy  re- 
ported to  the  commanding  officer  of  the  cavalry  battalion 
and  agreed  with  him  upon  a  plan  of  action.  This  under- 
standing reached,  Capt.  Healy  was  introduced  to  the 
negro  troops  as  an  "inspecting  officer."  The  ceremony 
was  forthwith  begun.  During  the  inspection  of  quarters, 
the  negroes  were  ordered  to  place  their  sabres  in  their 
tents,  and  then  to  parade  for  inspection  of  uniforms.  At 
a  signal  to  Lieut.  Carroll,  Company  C  was  quietly 
brought  to  the  rear  of  the  tents,  unperceived  by  the 
negroes.  Suddenly,  the  company,  with  bayonets  fixed 
and  guns  loaded,  was  moved  to  a  position  in  front  of  the 
tents,  thus  rendering  it  impossible  for  the  negroes  to  re- 


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gain  possession  of  their  sabres.  The  rebellious  cavalry 
thus  disarmed  and  foiled  were  marched  to  Fort  Banks 
and  kept  there  till  next  day  when  a  steamer  arrived  and 
the  prisoners,  by  order  of  Gen.  Reynolds,  were  placed  on 
board.  The  spirit  of  ugliness  was  completely  taken  out 
of  them.  Capt.  Healy  remained  in  command  of  Fort 
Banks  several  days.  On  Dec.  22,  Company  C  returned 
to  New  Orleans. 

Following  is  another  budget  of  orders  issued,  at  New 
Orleans,  to  the  Ninth,,  by  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon : 

July  6,  1863.  "Commandants  of  companies  will  imme- 
diately take  steps  to  have  their  unserviceable  tents  con- 
demned by  proper  authority." 

July  9,  1863.  "In  compliance  with  Special  Order  No. 
118,  Headquarters  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division,  I 
hereby  assume  command  of  all  convalescents  now  in  La- 
fayette Square,  and  all  others  who  may  hereafter  be 
ordered  to  report.  First  Lieutenant  Addis  E.  Payne,  of 
Company  C.  and  Second  Lieutenant  Andrew  Cole,  of 
Company  K,  are  hereby  ordered  to  take  charge  of  said 
convalescents.  They  will  be  immediately  organized  into 
companies,  at  the  maximum  strength,  and  will,  until  fur- 
ther orders,  be  considered  as  part  of  the  regiment.  Such 
of  them  as  are  without  arms  and  accoutrements  will  be 
immediately  supplied  with  such  by  Lieutenant  Corbin 

*  *  *  The  officers  detailed  to  command  these  men 
will  be  held  responsible  for  their  good  conduct  and  disci- 
pline." 

July  n,  1863.  "First  Sergeant  Charles  W.  Alcott,  of 
Company  I,  is  hereby  relieved  of  the  command  of  paroled 
Confederate  prisoners,  stationed  at  Lafayette  Square,  and 
also  of  that  of  the  negroes  there  employed.  Second  Ser- 
geant J.  T.  Platt,  of  Company  K,  is  hereby  appointed  to 
command  paroled  Confederate  prisoners,  stationed  in 
Lafayette  Square,  and  also  to  take  charge  of  the  negroes 


i68    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL,  INFANTRY. 

there  employed.  He  will  be  particular  in  attending-  to 
the  wants  of  the  prisoners,  and  pay  great  attention  to 
keeping  the  Square  clean  and  in  a  healthy  condition." 

July  30,  1863.  "William  H.  Andrews,  Corporal,  Com- 
pany K,  is  detailed  as  clerk  at  Brigade  headquarters. 
Private  Michael  King,  of  Company  K,  this  regiment,  is 
detailed  as  orderly  at  Regimental  headquarters.  *  * 

Aug.  25,  1863.  "Sergeant  Eben  B.  Evarts,  of  Com- 
pany E,  is  hereby  transferred  to  Company  F  and  ap- 
pointed first  sergeant  of  said  company.  Private  John 
Hurlbert  [Hulbert],  of  Company  C,  is  hereby  transferred 
to  Company  F  and  appointed  second  sergeant  of  said 
company.  They  will  be  obeyed  and  respected  accordingly. 
The  commandants  of  Companies  E  and  C  will  furnish  the 
above  named  sergeants  with  their  descriptive  lists,  and 
account  of  pay  and  clothing,  immediately." 

Aug.  25,  1863.  "The  Ninth  regiment  will  be  mustered 
for  pay  on  Monday,  August  31.  Commandants  of  com- 
panies will  see  that  every  man  is  present,  in  full  marching 
order,  and  able  to  undergo  a  very  strict  inspection.  The 
companies  at  present  stationed  in  Lafayette  Square  will 
form  in  line  at  6  o'clock  a.  m.  Company  G  will  be  mus- 
tered at  10  o'clock  in  the  rear  of  U.  S.  Barracks.  Com- 
panies A  and  H,  stationed  on  the  Mexican  Gulf  railroad, 
will  be  mustered  on  the  arrival  of  the  10  o'clock  train 
from  New  Orleans." 

Sept.  17,  1863.  "The  regular  monthly  inspection  of 
this  regiment  will  commence  on  the  25th  inst.  The  regi- 
ment will  be  inspected  by  Lieut.  H.  K.  Oliver,  A.  A.  In- 
spector-General of  the  brigade.  The  inspection  will  com- 
mence and  proceed  in  the  following  order:  Companies 
B,  C,  D,  E,  F,  I,  and  K,  at  Lafayette  Square,  on  Friday 
morning,  Sept.  25,  1863,  at  6  o'clock;  Company  A,  at 
Proctorville,  on  Saturday  the  26th  of  September,  1863 ; 
Company  H,  at  Camp  Chalmette,  and  G,  at  U.  S.  Bar- 
racks, on  Monday,  28th  September,  1863.  Commandants 


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of  companies  will  see  that  all  company  books  are  signed 
and  posted  up  to  date  and  ready  for  a  strict  inspection ; 
that  the  men  of  their  commands  have  everything"  in  ac- 
cordance with  army  regulations ;  that  quarters  and 
kitchens  are  clean  and  neat,  and,  in  fact,  that  everything 
pertaining  to  their  commands  is  in  perfect  order." 

Oct.  8,  1863.  "Hereafter,  on  the  old  guard  being  re- 
lieved, it  will,  under  command  of  its  officer,  constitute  a 
police  guard  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  keep  the  camp  in  a 
clean  and  neat  condition.  The  officer  in  charge  will  be 
held  responsible  that  the  policing  of  the  camp  is  com- 
pleted each  day  before  10  o'clock  a.  m. 

Oct.  10,  1863.  "The  regular  monthly  inspection  of  the 
companies  comprising  the  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  by  the  Acting  Assistant  Inspector  General  of 
the  Second  Brigade,  Fourth  Division,  Nineteenth  Army 
Corps,  will  take  place  in  the  following  order :  Companies 
B,  C,  D,  E,  F,  and  K,  stationed  at  Lafayette  Square,  New 
Orleans,  on  Thursday  next,  the  i5th  inst.  Companies  G 
and  H,  stationed  at  U.  S.  Barracks,  New  Orleans,  and 
Chalmette,  La.,  on  Friday,  i6th  inst.  Company  A,  sta- 
tioned at  Proctorville,  La.,  on  Saturday,  I7th  inst.  Com- 
pany commanders  will  see  that  everything  pertaining  to 
their  commands  is  in  good  order.  *  *  *  It  not  being 
known  at  what  hour  the  inspection  will  take  place,  all 
companies  will  be  in  readiness  to  form  on  the  color  line 
by  6  o'clock  a.  m.  Each  company  commander  will  in- 
struct his  men  who  are  on  outpost  duty  to  report  to  him 
at  the  time  specified,  leaving  only  those  who  are  stationed 
as  sentries  at  that  time.  Immediately  after  inspection, 
each  company  commander  will  hand  to  the  adjutant  an 
inspection  report  of  his  company,  giving  the  number  of 
men  present,  and  absent  and  where,  the  number  of  guns 
in  his  possession,  kind  and  calibre ;  the  amount  of  ammu- 
nition on  hand  and,  in  short,  a  report  of  the  company  and 
all  that  pertains  thereto.  *  *  *  " 


i yo    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL,  INFANTRY, 

Oct.  14,  1863.  "  *  *  *  Company  commanders 
are  authorized  to  enlist,  as  cooks,  two  men  of  color  for 
each  thirty  men  of  their  commands.  Commandants  of 
companies  will,  therefore,  select  good  men  for  this  pur- 
pose prior  to  the  2Oth  inst,  at  which  time  they  will  be 
mustered  into  the  United  States  service.  *  *  *  " 

Oct.  21,  1863.  "The  following  named  persons  of  this 
regiment  have  been  commissioned  by  His  Excellency, 
Governor  Buckingham  of  Connecticut,  as  follows :  First 
Lieutenant  Thomas  Fitz  Gibbon,  Company  G,  as  quar- 
termaster, vice  Quartermaster  Thomas  Corbin  *  *  *  ; 
Second  Lieutenant  John  C.  Curtis,  Company  G,  as  first 
lieutenant  same  company,  vice  Lieutenant  Thomas  Fitz- 
Gibbon  commissioned  quartermaster;  Second  Lieuten- 
ant James  Cahill,  Company  D,  as  first  lieutenant  same 
company,  vice  Lieutenant  Richard  A.  Clancey  *  *  *  ; 
Second  Lieutenant  Garry  T.  Scott,  Company  F,  as  first 
lieutenant  same  company,  vice  First  Lieutenant  John 
Carroll  transferred  to  Company  B  ;  Commissary  Sergeant 
James  Lawler  as  second  lieutenant,  Company  C,  vice 
Second  Lieutenant  Patrick  Ingoldsby." 

Oct.  21,  1863.  " Private  Frederick  Smedel,  of  Com- 
pany I,  is  hereby  appointed  commissary  sergeant,  vice 
Commissary  Sergeant  Lawler  promoted." 

Nov.  14,  1863.  "  *  *  *  Capt.  John  G.  Healy,  of 
Company  C,  with  Second  Lieutenant  Michael  Mullins, 
of  Company  E,  and  twenty  (20)  enlisted  men  of  the  for- 
mer company,  is  hereby  detailed  to  proceed  to  Company 
Canal,  La.,  and  assume  command  of  that  post." 

Nov.  19,  1863.  "Second  Lieutenant  Andrew  Cole,  of 
Company  K,  is,  in  addition  to  his  other  duties,  hereby 
appointed  regimental  recruiting  officer.  No  other  officer 
is  authorized  to  enlist  men  for  the  regiment." 

Dec.  i,  1863.  "A  council  of  adminstration  is  hereby 
appointed,  composed  of  the  following  named  officers: 
Captain  Patrick  Garvey,  of  Company  B ;  First  Lieuten- 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  I7I 

ant  Francis  McKeon,  of  Company  E;  First  Lieutenant 
James  Cahill,  of  Company  D,  whose  duty  shall  be  to  dis- 
pose of  the  effects  of  deceased  soldiers,  in  accordance  with 
the  seventeenth  Article  of  the  Revised  Regulations." 

Dec.  13,  1863.  "Commanders  of  companies  will  at 
once  proceed  to  close  all  accounts,  of  the  enlisted  men  of 
their  commands,  for  clothing,  etc.,  with  the  United  States 
for  the  year  1863.  The  amount  due  the  United  States, 
and  due  the  soldier,  will  be  entered  in  the  column  of  'Re- 
marks/ on  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  November  and 
December,  1863." 


CHAPTER  XL 

CONFEDERATE      PLOT      TO      RECAPTURE    NEW    ORLEANS 

THE   NINTH   MENTIONED   AS   AMONG  THE   DEFENDERS 

OF  THE  CITY THE  ENGAGEMENTS  AT  PASS  MANCHAC 

AND    BAYOU   DES   ALLEMANDS LIST     OF     DEATHS    IN 

THE  NINTH   DURING   1863  AND    1864 VETERAN   FUR- 
LOUGH   OF   THE    REGIMENT A    GREAT    RECEPTION    IN 

NEW  HAVEN. 

EARLY  in  January,  1864,  the  Confederates  were  con- 
sidering a  plot  to  recapture  New  Orleans.  A 
rebel  officer,  Co.  T.  J.  Reid,  Jr.,  of  the  Twelfth  Arkansas, 
wrote  to  President  Davis  of  the  Confederacy,  submitting 
a  plan  for  the  retaking  of  the  city. 

Reid  had  been  a  prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  United 
States  authorities  since  the  fall  of  Port  Hudson  until  Dec. 
4,  1863,  and  had  been  kept  in  New  Orleans.  While 
thus  a  prisoner  there,  he  had  acquired  information  as  to 
the  strength  and  location  of  the  Union  forces  within  the 
city  and  much  other  information  of  value  regarding  the 
defences  of  the  city.  He  mentions  the  Ninth  Connecti- 
cut as  among  the  defenders  of  the  place.  He  unfolds  his 
plans,  in  detail,  to  Davis  and  displays  great  confidence 
in  the  meditated  undertaking.  He  mentions  "six  large 
regiments"  of  Confederates  as  have  been  organized  "even 
under  the  presence  of  the  enemy"  and  states  that  these 
would  co-operate  in  the  projected  uprising.  Thus,  while 
New  Orleans  was  being  attacked  by  Confederates  from  the 
outside,  these  "six  large  regiments"  of  rebels  would  create 
a  diversion  inside  the  city  by  cutting  the  telegraph,  seiz- 
ing the  arsenal,  capturing  the  general  officers,  etc.  But 
this  plan  so  carefully  considered  was  never  carried  out. 

In  the  engagements  at  Pass  Manchac  and  Bayou  des 
Allemands,  La.,  in  1864,  additional  glory  was  reflected 


W 'A R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1*65.  173 

upon  the  Ninth  by  the  gallantry  displayed  in  conflicts 
with  the  enemy. 

On  Jan.  31,  1864,  the  Ninth  formed  part  of  a  provi- 
sional brigade,  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  the  other 
organizations  in  the  brigade  being  the  Twelfth  Maine 
(four  companies),  and  the  One  Hundred  and  Seventy- 
sixth  New  York,  the  whole  being  commanded  by  Col. 
William  K.  Kimball. 

On  Feb.  15,  1864,  a  reorganization  of  the  Nineteenth 
Corps  was  announced  by  which  the  Ninth  Connecticut 
and  the  Thirteenth  Connecticut  were  assigned  to  the  Sec- 
ond Division,  by  order  of  Gen.  Banks. 

Gen.  Banks,  who  had  succeeded  Gen.  Butler  in  com- 
mand of  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  was  a  native  of  Wal- 
tham,  Mass.,  and  was  born  Jan.  30,  1816.  He  became 
a  lawyer,  a  prominent  Democrat,  and  at  one  time  edited 
a  newspaper.  During  the  administration  of  President 
Polk,  Banks  held  a  position  in  the  Boston  Custom  house, 
and  in  1849  was  a  member  of  the  state  legislature  of 
Massachusetts,  being  speaker  of  the  lower  branch  of  that 
body  in  1851-52.  In  1853,  he  was  president  of  the  State 
Constitutional  Convention.  In  1853-57,  ne  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress,  and  separated  from  the  Democratic 
party.  He  was  speaker  of  the  National  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  1855,  was  elected  governor  of  Massachu- 
etts  in  1858,  and  served  until  1861.  When  the  war  broke 
out,  he  was  president  of  the  Illinois  Central  railroad.  He 
offered  his  services  to  President  Lincoln,  was  commis- 
sioned a  major  general  of  volunteers  in  May,  1861,  and 
was  given  command  of  the  Annapolis  military  district. 
He  displayed  great  ability  during  the  war,  and  in  1865 
was  again  elected  to  Congress. 

Gen.  Thomas  Williams,  in  whose  forces  the  Ninth 
served  at  the  battle  of  Baton  Rouge,  was  born  in  New 
York,  1816.  He  graduated  at  West  Point,  in  1837,  and 
became  assistant  professor  of  mathematics  there.  From 
1844  to  1850,  he  was  an  aid  to  Gen.  Scott,  and  rendered 


174    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

gallant  service  in  the  war  with  Mexico.  In  Sept.,  1861, 
he  was  commissioned  brigadier  general  of  volunteers  and 
commanded,  at  one  time,  the  forts  at  Hatteras. 

While  Capt.  O'Brien  was  provost  marshal  and  judge 
of  the  Parish  of  St.  James,  La.,  he  administered  affairs 
so  judiciously  that  he  became  quite  popular  with  the 
planters  and  their  negro  laborers.  The  sugar  crop  was 
saved,  the  profits  were  large  and  the  help  received  wages 
in  full.  Previously  the  work  had  been  done  by  slave 
labor,  so  that  the  reception  of  wages  for  their  work  on 
this  occasion  was  an  agreeable  experience  for  the  ne- 
groes. Capt.  O'Brien  administered  affairs  so  well  that 
when  Gen.  Richard  Taylor  (Confederate)  came  sweeping 
along  to  relieve  the  besieged  garrison  at  Port  Hudson, 
O'Brien  was  secretly  warned  by  the  planters  so  that  he 
might  escape  death  or  capture. 

The  attention  of  Gen.  Banks  was  specially  called,  in 
June,  1864,  to  the  large  number  of  U.  S.  soldiers  con- 
fined in  the  Parish  prison,  New  Orleans.  He  decided  to 
investigate  the  matter  and  appointed  a  commission,  con- 
sisting of  four  officers  for  that  purpose.  One  of  these 
officers  was  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien  of  the  Ninth. 
They  found  that  for  trifling  offences,  soldiers  would  be 
arrested  by  the  police  and  brought  before  a  judge  who 
would  not  fine  them  but  would,  instead,  send  them  to 
prison.  The  commission  also  found,  and  so  reported  to 
Gen.  Banks,  that  the  judge  was  a  secret  enemy  of  the 
United  States  and  was  thus  aiding  his  side  by  imprison- 
ing these  U.  S.  soldiers  and  thus  keeping  them  away  from 
their  regiments.  As  a  result  of  the  investigation,  the 
soldiers  were  liberated  and  the  judge  was  arrested  and 
locked  up. 

Lieut.  Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gibbon  of  the  Ninth,  issued 
the  following  circular  from  the  headquarters  of  the  regi- 
ment, Madisonville,  La.,  early  in  1864: 

Feb.  16,  1864.  "There  being  a  number  of  men  in  the 
several  companies  of  this  regiment  who  manifested  a  de- 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  175 

sire,  previous  to  re-enlisting,  to  be  transferred  from  one 
company  to  another,  and  they  having  been  generally  in- 
formed by  the  officers  that  this  desire  would  be  granted,  I 
think  it  is  for  the  interest  of  the  captains  and  also  the 
regiment  that  this  should  be  carried  out.  In  order  that 
it  may  be  done  properly,  the  applications  should  come 
from  the  captains  to  the  commanding  officer  of  the  regi- 
ment. It  is  desired  that  this  may  be  done  as  soon  as  con- 
venient.'' 

Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon  also  issued  the  following  order 
under  date  of  Madisonville,  La.,  Feb.  26,  1864: 

"On  the  reorganization  of  this  regiment  as  veteran 
volunteers,  and  at  the  request  of  company  commanders, 
the  following  named  enlisted  men  are  transferred  as  fol- 
lows :  Private  Patrick  Bowen,1  of  Company  A,  to  Com- 
pany C ;  Private  James  Keegan,  of  Company  A,  to  Com- 
C ;  Private  Charles  Dimon,  of  Company  D,  to  Company 
I ;  Private  Thomas  Knablin,  of  Company  D,  to  Company 
I ;  Corporal  James  Dolan,  of  Company  E,  to  Company  K ; 
Private  Michael  Dolan,  of  Company  E,  to  Company  K ; 
Private  John  O'Mara,of  Company  E,to  Company  K.  All 
ordnance  and  ordnance  stores, camp  [and]  garrison  equip- 
age in  their  possession  will  be  dropped  from  the  next 
quarterly  returns  of  the  companies,  from  which  they  are 
transferred,  and  taken  up  on  the  returns  of  the  compa- 
nies to  which  they  are  transferred.  Their  clothing  and 
whatever  other  accounts  they  may  have  will  be  trans- 
ferred in  like  manner.  Their  names  will  be  dropped 
from  the  rolls  of  the  several  companies  from  which  they 
are  transferred,  and  will  be  borne  on  rolls  of  the  com- 
panies to  which  they  are  assigned.  This  order  to  take 
effect  from  March  I,  1864." 

In  an  order  issued  by  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon,  at 
Madisonville,  La.,  Feb.  29,  1864,  it  is  provided  that  "The 
camp  of  this  regiment  will  be  removed  to-morrow  to  the 
grounds  formerly  occupied  by  the  Eleventh  Indiana  Vol- 
unteers. The  tents  will  be  struck  at  5  o'clock  a.  m." 

Also  spelled  Bohan. 


176     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN,   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

In  an  order  issued  by  the  Lieutenant  Colonel  at  Car- 
rollton,  La,,  March  17,  1864,  he  announces  that  "The 
following  officers  are  hereby  appointed  an  examining 
board  to  examine  recruits,  from  the  general  depot  of  en- 
listment, for  this  regiment,  viz :  Surgeon  Charles  A.  Gal- 
lagher, Ninth  Connecticut;  Capt.  Michael  A.  Williams, 
Ninth  Connecticut;  Capt.  John  G.  Healy,  Ninth  Con- 
necticut." 

The  Ninth  was  now  preparing  for  its  furlough  North. 
Col.  Cahill  issued  the  following: 


HEADQUARTERS,  NINTH  REGIMENT,  CONN.  VOLS. 

CARROLLTON,  LA.,  March  25,  1864. 
Regimental  Order 
No.  5. 

I  In  compliance  with  Special  Order  No.  71,  Head- 
quarters Defences  of  New  Orleans,  the  commanding  offi- 
cers of  companies  of  this  regiment  will  turn  in  to  the  regi- 
mental Quartermaster  all  quartermaster  stores,  camp  and 
garrison  equipage  and  all  surplus  ordnance  stores   for 
which  they  may  be  responsible. 

II  The  regimental  Quartermaster  upon  the  receipt  of 
the  ordnance  and  quartermaster    stores,  will    turn    the 
above  named  over  to   the   proper   staff   departments, 

*     *     in  accordance  with  Paragraph   3,    Special    Order 
No.  71,  from  Headquarters  Defences  of  New  Orleans. 

III  The  regimental   surgeon,  Charles    A.  Gallagher, 
will  turn  over  to  the  proper  staff  departments  all  surplus 
medical  stores  for  which  he  is  responsible. 

IV  Company  commanders  will  make  out  and  forward 
to  these  headquarters,  at  the  earliest  possible  moment, 
descriptive  lists     *     *     *     of  all  men  of  their  commands 
who  have  not  re-enlisted. 

By  order  of 

THOMAS  W.  CAHILL, 

Colonel  Commanding. 
Henry  Kattenstroth, 

Adjutant. 


W 'A R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  i86r-i86^.  177 

According  to  an  order  issued  at  New  Orleans,  June  27, 
1864,  the  Nineteenth  Corps,  as  then  made  up,  comprised 
three  divisions,,  nine  brigades,  and  fifty  regiments.  The 
Ninth  Connecticut  regiment,  at  that  time,  formed  a  part 
of  the  First  Brigade  of  the  Second  Division,  The  brigade 
was  commanded  by  Gen.  H.  W.  Birge  and  the  division 
by  Gen.  Cuvier  Grover.  The  brigade  was  constituted  as 
follows :  

FIRST  BRIGADE. 
BRIG.  GEN.  H.   W.   BIRGE. 

Fourteenth  Maine,  Col.  Thomas  W.  Porter. 
Twelfth  Maine,  Col.  William  K.  Kimball. 
Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts,  Col.  A.  B.  Farr. 
Ninth  Connecticut,  Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill. 
Seventy-fifth  New  York,  Col.  R.  B.  Merritt. 
Fourteenth  New  Hampshire,  Col.  Robert  Wilson. 


Gen.  Henry  W.  Birge,  commanding  this  brigade,  was 
a  native  of  Connecticut,  and  when  the  war  broke  out  was 
a  resident  of  Norwich.  In  May,  1861,  he  was  commis- 
sioned as  major  of  the  Fourth  Connecticut  regiment,  but 
resigned  that  position  and  in  November,  1861,  was  made 
colonel  of  the  Thirteenth  Connecticut.  He  led  the  latter 
to  Ship  Island,  Miss.,  and  thence  to  New  Orleans,  later 
participating  in  operations  throughout  that  section.  In 
September,  1863,  he  was  commissioned  brigadier  general. 
He  took  part  in  the  Red  River  campaign  and  in  Sheri- 
dan's operations  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  In  June, 
1865,  he  was  appointed  to  command  the  military  district 
of  Savannah,  Ga. 

The  following  order  is  self-explanatory  : 

Aug.  15,  1864.  "Captain  O'Brien,  Qth  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  will  take  command  of,  and  distribute  to  their 
regiments,  all  enlisted  men  now  at  Camp  of  Distribution 
in  this  city,  whose  regiments  are  serving  in  the  Army  of 

12 


178     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

the  Potomac.  All  officers  en  route  to  their  commands, 
junior  in  rank  to  Captain  O'Brien,  will  render  him  such 
assistance  in  the  discharge  of  this  duty,  as  he  may  re- 
quire. The  Quartermaster's  department  will  furnish  the 
necessary  transportation."  (By  command  of  Major  Gen. 
J.  J.  Reynolds). 


The  following  is  a  list  of  members  of  the  Ninth  who 
are  recorded  as  having  "Died"  during  1863  and  1864,  to- 
gether with  the  place  where  each  belonged.  The  list 
does  not  include  those  killed  during  that  period : 

COMPANY  A. 

Private  Daniel  Mullen,  New  Haven. 
Private  John  Donohue,  Branford. 
Private  James  Foley,  New  Haven.1 
Private  Patrick  Cullen,2  New  Haven. 

COMPANY  B. 

Private  Thomas  Dunn,  New  Britain. 
Private  Patrick  Green,  Meriden. 
Private  James  Lawler,3  Middletown. 
Private  John  Lynch,  ist,  Cheshire. 
Private  Michael  Magee,  Meriden. 
Private  Alexander  Merceir,  Cheshire. 
Private  Thomas  Minahan,  New  Haven. 
Private  William  Casheen,2  Meriden. 

COMPANY  C. 

Private  Timothy  McLaughlin,  New  Haven. 
Private  John  T.  Barry,  New  Haven. 
Private  Roger  Kelleher,  New  Haven. 
Private  Garrett  Birmingham,2  New  Haven. 
Private  John  Smith,  2d,  New  Haven. 

COMPANY  D. 

Private  Nicholas  Doyle,  Bridgeport. 
Private  Peter  Keenan,  Bridgeport. 

1  Place  of  muster  in. 

2  Died  while  a  member  of  the  Ninth  Battalion,  C.  V. 

3  Drowned. 


IV A R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  179 

Private  Peter  O'Conner,  Bridgeport. 

Private  Dennis  Otis,  Bridgeport. 

Private  Philip  Pearson,  New  Orleans,  La.1 

COMPANY  E. 

Private  Cornelius  Ryan,  Derby. 
Private  John  McTague,  Camp  Parapet,  La.1 
Private  Matthew  Gallagher,  New  Haven. 

COMPANY  F. 

Corporal  Carl  G.  Bernhardt,  Westbrook. 
Private  John  Fanning,  Waterbury. 
Private  John  McCarthy,  New  Orleans,  La,1 
Private  John  McSorley,  Norwich. 

COMPANY  G. 

Musician  Dennis  Deegan,  Middletown. 
Private  John  Rynes,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  James  Galvin,  Hartford. 
Private  Peter  Hackett,  Hartford. 
Private  Cornelius  Lehon,  Portland. 
Private  Joseph  Furnace,  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  Otto  Lefevre,2  New  Orleans,  La.1 
Private  Thomas  Spellesay,  New  Orleans,  La.1 

COMPANY  H. 

Corporal  James  O'Brine,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Corporal  Patrick  Glynn,3  Norwich. 
Private  John  I.  Cain,  Danbury. 
Private  John  Meldrum,  Norwich. 
Private  Newman  Bruisee,  New  Haven. 
Private  Henry  F.  Thompson,  Portland. 
Private  James  Carey,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  John  Green,  Carrollton,  La.1 
Private  Patrick  Gray,  New  Haven. 

1  Place  of  muster  in. 

a  Transferred  to  ist  Regt.,  Texas  Cavalry,  Nov.  i,  1862;  died  at  Hempstead,  Tex., 
Aug.  30,  1864. 

3  Died  while  a  member  of  Company  C,  Ninth  battalion,  C.  V. 

NOTE. — To  the  above  add  the  following:  Company  D,  Wagoner  Henry  Dressen- 
doffer,  New  Orleans,  La.;  Wagoner  William  Fibbs,  Bridgeport.  Company  G,  Private 
Heenan  Greenhart,  Hartford;  Private  James  Cunningham,  Hartford.  Company  H, 
Private  Oliver  Sanford,  Portland. 


1 80    NIN  TH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  IN  FA  NTR  Y. 

COMPANY  I. 

Private  John  Cooney,1  Lowell,  Mass. 
Private  Martin  Murphy,  Northampton,  Mass. 
Private  William  Hollidi,  Carrollton,  La.2 

COMPANY  K. 

Sergeant  William  Brown,  Derby. 
Private  Charles  Ross,  Hartford. 

By  special  order  No.  19,  issued  by  Col.  Cahill,  at  Car- 
rollton, La.,  April  4,  1864,  the  non  re-enlisted  men  of  the 
Ninth,  and  others  not  entitled  to  the  furlough,  were 
assigned  to  Capt.  Wright  of  the  regiment,  during  the 
absence  of  the  latter  at  the  North.  Lieut.  Joseph  H. 
Lawler  was,  at  his  own  request,  relieved  from  duty  with 
Company  H,  and  was  ordered  to  report  for  duty  to  Capt. 
Wright. 

In  the  meantime,  the  U.  S.  transport  Continental  had 
been  provided  to  convey  the  regiment  North  on  its  fur- 
lough. The  Continental  was  moored  to  a  wharf  at  the 
head  of  Jackson  street,  New  Orleans.  The  Ninth  was 
transported  from  Carrollton  to  New  Orleans  by  rail  and 
marched  to  the  boat.  A  special  guard  of  three  men  from 
each  company  was  detailed  for  duty  at  the  steamer. 
Embarking,  the  regiment  was  assigned  quarters  for  the 
voyage,  and  soon  after,  lines  were  cast  off  and  the  Con- 
tinental started  on  her  journey.  Officers  and  men  were 
in  excellent  spirits,  at  the  prospect  of  visiting  home,  and 
the  passage  proved  very  enjoyable.  The  Continental, 
which  also  had  the  Eighth  Vermont  regiment  aboard, 
reached  Long  wharf,  New  Haven,  at  5  p.  m.,  Friday, 
April  15. 

The  city  was  en  fete  to  welcome  the  returned  veterans. 
The  New  Haven  Palladium  speaking  of  the  event,  in  its 
issue  of  April  16,  1864,  says:  "New  Haven  honored  the 
brave  boys  of  the  Ninth  yesterday.  Col.  Cahill  and  about 

1  Drowned. 

3  Place  of  muster  in. 


IV A  R  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863,  181 

400  of  his  re-enlisted  men  arrived  at  Long  wharf  on  the 
transport  Continental,  yesterday  afternoon,  after  a  pleas- 
ant passage.  *  *  *  The  veterans  were  landed, 
formed  in  line,  and  inspected  at  the  end  of  Long  wharf. 
They  were  then  marched  up  to  the  head,  where  they  were 
met  by  the  imposing  military  escort  which  our  patriot- 
ism had  provided  for  them."  Church  bells  were  rung, 
cannon  fired  and  other  welcoming  features  displayed. 
The  Eighth  Vermont  also  landed  and  participated  in  the 
parade,  receiving  a  cordial  greeting.  The  line  was  made 
up  as  follows,  as  stated  in  the  Connecticut  War  Record,  a 
publication  of  the  period : 

Second  Company,  Governor's  Horse  Guards. 

Band. 
One  Company  of  the  Third  Battalion,  Veteran  Reserve  Corps, 

from  the  U.  S.  Rendezvous. 
Detachment  of  the  Second  Battalion,  Veteran  Reserve  Corps, 

from  the  Knight  Hospital. 
Detachment  of  30  men  on  Recruiting  Service,  from  the  U.  S. 

Rendezvous. 
The  New  Haven  Grays,  Capt.  Northrop. 

The  National  Blues,  Capt.  Hollister. 

The  Governor's  Foot  Guard,  Major  Camp. 

The  City  Guard,  Capt.  Richards. 

The  Emmet  Guard,  Capt.  Wrinn. 

Reception  Committee  in  carriages. 

Mayor  Tyler,  Maj.  Gen.   Russell,  and  the  Rev.  Father  Hart 

of  St.  Patrick's  church. 

The  Ninth  Regiment,1  Connecticut  Volunteers, 
Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill. 

Band. 
The  Eighth  Vermont  Regiment,  Col.  Dutton. 

The  Ninth  received  a  tremendous  welcome  from  the 
multitude  lining  the  route  of  march.  The  veterans  were 
escorted  to  the  State  House,  in  New  Haven,  where  an 
address  of  welcome  was  delivered  by  Mayor  Tyler.  An 
eloquent  address  was  also  delivered  by  the  Rev.  Father 
Hart,  in  the  course  of  which  he  said : 

"We  hoped  for  great  things  from  you ;  and  I  proclaim 
before  you  that  our  hopes  have  not  been  disappointed, — 

1  The  re-enlisted  veterans. 


1 82     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  IN  FA  NTR  Y. 

no,  not  in  a  single  instance.  We  have  followed  you  from 
Ship  Island  to  Pass  Christian,  your  first  encounter 
in  war,  when,  after  having  conquered  the  fathers,  you 
gave  bread  to  the  starving  children.  We  followed  you  to 
New  Orleans.  Wre  found  you  in  the  expedition  bound 
for  Vicksburg.  There  many  of  your  noble  brothers  in 
arms  laid  down  their  lives  upon  their  country's  altar. 
Sacred  be  their  memories  to-night!  Honored  be  the 
graves  in  which  their  patriotic  dust  is  laid  to  rest!  and 
may  our  country,  for  which  they  died,  care  for  their 
widowed  and  orphaned  ones.  From  Vicksburg,  we 
watched  your  steps  to  Baton  Rouge,  now  made  famous 
by  your  exploits ;  where,  after  a  most  desperate  contest, 
lasting  for  hours,  your  gallant  colonel  was  placed  in 
command,  by  whose  efforts  the  day  was  won,  and  the 
enemy  defeated,  forced  to  retire,  leaving  their  dead  and 
wounded  in  your  hands.  You  have  done  well.  We  are 
proud  of  you.  Other  regiments  have  fought  more  than 
you,  because  they  had  it  to  do.  You  have  done  all  the 
fighting  given  you  to  do,  and  done  it  well.  We  honor 
you,  therefore,  and  were  proud  of  you  when  we  heard  of 
your  congratulatory  orders,  and  your  compliments  for 
discipline  and  bravery." 

During  the  exercises,  a  dinner  was  served  the  veterans. 
The  Ninth  went  into  camp  in  New  Haven,  and  the  men 
were  given  opportunities  to  visit  their  homes  and  fami- 
lies, from  whom  they  had  been  absent  so  long. 


SERG'T  Piiii.ii-  RILEY.  SKKG'T  J.  T.  MULLEN 

PRIN.  Mus.  JOHN  E.  HEALY. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

DEPARTURE  OF  THE  NINTH  FROM  NEW  HAVEN  FOR  BER- 
MUDA HUNDRED THE  COMMAND  AT  THE  NATIONAL- 
CAPITAL THE  MARCH  TO  TENNALLYTOWN,  D.  C. 

THENCE  TO  THE  SHENANDOAH  VALLEY THE  BATTLES' 

OF    WINCHESTER    AND    FISHER'S    HILL REENLISTED1 

VETERANS   ORGANIZED   INTO   THE   NINTH   BATTALION, 
COMMANDED  BY  LIEUT.  COL.  JOHN  G.  HEALY. 

THE  NINTH  left  New  Haven  for  the  front,  again, 
July  1 8,  1864,  and  was  given  a  cordial  farewell. 
New  Haven  was  aglow  with  enthusiasm  and  a  great  con- 
course witnessed  the  regiment's  departure.  The  com- 
mand departed  on  the  steamer  Elm  City  for  New  York 
and  landed  there.  It  was  at  first  thought  to  retain  the 
regiment  in  that  city,  owing  to  circumstances,  but  the 
command  was  finally  embarked  for  New  Orleans.  This 
order  was  soon  changed,  however,  and  the  Ninth  was 
directed  to  proceed  to  the  James  river,  where  it  disem- 
barked at  Bermuda  Hundred,  Va.,  and  participated, 
"with  its  usual  alacrity,"  in  the  important  movements 
then  taking  place. 

Gen.  Butler,  early  in  May,  1864,  had  entrenched  the 
larger  part  of  the  Army  of  the  James  at  Bermuda  Hun- 
dred, at  the  junction  of  the  James  and  Appomattox  rivers. 
The  object  was  to  co-operate  with  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac,  which  was  approaching  from  the  North. 
Butler's  prime  consideration,  just  then,  was  to  prevent 
Lee  receiving  re-enforcements  from  Petersburg,  Va.,  or 
the  South.  With  this  purpose  in  view,  Butler  undertook 
the  destruction  of  the  railway  between  Petersburg  and 
Richmond  so  as  to  cut  off  direct  communication  between 
the  capital  of  the  Confederacy  and  the  South. 

Gen.  Gillmore  withdrew  his  forces  from  before  Charles- 
ton to  join  Butler,  whereupon  Gen.  Beauregard  hurried 


1 84    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  IN  FA  NTR  Y. 

northward  to  confront  and  oppose  the  Army  of  the 
James.  He  reached  Petersburg  and  was  quickly  re- 
enforced.  Under  cover  of  a  dense  fog,  on  the  morning  of 
May  1 6,  1864,  he  attempted  to  turn  Butler's  right  flank. 
After  a  spirited  battle,  Butler's  troops  retired  to  within 
their  entrenchments.  Some  days  later,  Butler  was  ordered 
to  forward  nearly  two-thirds  of  his  effective  force  to  the 
north  side  of  the  James  river  for  the  purpose  of  assisting 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac  which  was  then  engaged  oper- 
ating against  Lee  in  northern  Virginia.  Deprived  of  so 
large  a  part  of  his  troops,  Butler  was  unable,  for  the  time, 
to  make  any  further  aggressive  movement.  He  accord- 
ingly expressed  himself  to  the  effect  that  "The  necessities 
of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  have  bottled  me  up  at  Ber- 
muda Hundred."  This  sentiment  was  subsequently  used 
to  his  disadvantage. 

The  Ninth,  under  Col.  Cahill,  upon  reaching  Bermuda 
Hundred,  in  July,  1864,  reported  to  Gen.  W.  S.  Hancock 
commanding  the  Second  Corps.  Some  days  later  the 
regiment  proceeded  to  Deep  Bottom,  Va.  In  a  short  time 
it  moved  to  Washington,  D.  C.  It  reported  to  Gen.  C. 
C.  Auger,  commanding  the  Twenty-second  Corps.  One 
of  the  captains  of  the  regiment  writing  home  to  Connec- 
ticut, under  date  of  Tennallytown,  D.  C.,  Aug.  3,  1864, 
says : 

"In  the  letter  which  I  sent  home  on  the  ist  inst.,  I 
mentioned  that  we  were  in  sight  of  the  city  of  Washing- 
ton. Well,  we  arrived  there  that  evening,  and  in  a  few 
moments  received  orders  to  march  to  the  Baltimore 
depot  and  there  take  the  cars.  All  the  knapsacks  were 
stored  in  one  of  the  Government  buildings,  the  officers 
and  men  taking  with  them  only  what  clothing  they  most 
needed.  We  marched  through  Washington  to  the  depot. 
On  arriving  at  the  latter  point,  we  learned  that  no  cars 
would  be  ready  for  us  until  near  morning.  So  we  were 
ordered,  with  other  regiments,  to  an  open  field  where  we 
laid  ourselves  down.  The  men  had  their  blankets  with 


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them,  but  the  officers  had  no  such  comforts  and  were 
obliged  to  recline  on  the  bare  ground. 

"We  did  not  expect  to  have  much  of  a  sleep  that  night, 
as  we  expected  to  be  ordered  off  at  any  moment.  Still, 
we  hoped  this  would  not  be  and  that  we  would  be  per- 
mitted to  remain  undisturbed  for  the  night,  as  we  were 
all  tired  out,  not  having  changed  our  clothing  since  we 
left  New  Haven  and  having  had  but  little  sleep.  In  one 
hour  after  we  had  lain  down,  however,  the  order  was 
given  to  'Fall  in !'  without  arms. 

"'Fall  in!  Fall  in!  Fall  in! 

Every  man  in  his  place ; 
Fall  in !  Fall  in !  Fall  in  ! 

Each  with  a  cheerful  face. 
Fall  in  !   Fall  in  ! 
Fall  in  !  Fall  in  !' 

"We  were  marched  to  a  large  building,  called  the 
'Soldiers'  Rest,'  where  we  were  treated  to  plenty  of  cold 
ham,  hot  coffee  and  fresh  bread.  The  boys  ate  with  a 
relish.  After  this,  we  went  back  to  the  camp  and 
again  fixed  ourselves  for  a  good  night's  rest.  But  we 
were  soon  disturbed,  and  ordered  to  go  aboard  the  cars. 
These  were  such  as  are  used  to  carry  horses.  We  lay 
down  on  the  hard  boards  and  tried  to  snatch  a  brief  sleep. 
Before  daylight,  we  were  aroused  and  ordered  to  disem- 
bark, the  train  not  having  started,  and  be  ready  to  imme- 
diately march. 

"The  line  was  formed  on  Pennsylvania  Ave.,  in  front 
of  the  National  Capitol.  Our  regiment  had  the  right  of 
the  line,  and  the  march  was  soon  begun.  We  soon 
learned  that  we  were  to  march  to  the  Tennallytown  road 
and  there  join  other  troops  on  their  way  against  the 
enemy.  After  we  had  marched  about  seven  miles,  we 
were  ordered  into  camp.  Our  brigade  formed  in  line  at 
10  o'clock  that  night  and,  half  an  hour  later,  we  started 
for  the  front.  The  Ninth  was  in  excellent  spirits,  notwith- 
standing what  it  had  just  been  through,  and  we  moved 


!  86     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL  INFA  NTR  Y. 

forward  in  excellent  shape.  We  marched  until  2.30 
o'clock  the  next  morning,  and  by  that  time  we  were  very 
tired. 

"We  were  permitted  to  lie  down  and  were  soon  fast 
asleep.  The  next  morning,  we  commenced  pitching  our 
tents,  which  are  nothing  but  a  square  piece  of  canvas  for 
the  officers  and  men;  all  fare  alike.  When  we  awoke 
that  morning,  the  first  thing  that  attracted  our  attention 
was  the  advance  line  of  our  fortifications  within  a  short 
distance  of  us.  There  we  were  in  the  front  and  facing  the 
enemy.  The  evening  previously,  a  great  many  of  the 
Ninth  went  up  to  the  works,  and  when  they  came  back 
they  informed  those  who  did  not  go  that  they  had  got  a 
glimpse  of  the  enemy.  This  information  prompted  a  gen- 
eral rush  of  the  boys  to  the  place  and  from  there,  sure 
enough,  could  be  seen  our  pickets  and,  beyond  them, 
those  of  the  Confederates.  Friend  and  foe  were  only  a 
short  distance  apart.  In  fact,  the  pickets  were  near 
enough  to  exchange  words  with  each  other.  I  went  up 
to  our  works  yesterday  afternoon  and,  with  the  naked  eye, 
could  easily  see  the  rebel  pickets  and,  with  the  aid  of  a 
glass,  could  nearly  discern  their  features.  I  heard  their 
band  play  last  night.  There  was  also  great  cheering 
among  the  Confederates,  but  we  have  not  yet  learned  the 
cause  of  it. 

"I  don't  know  how  long  we  will  remain  here, — prob- 
ably until  the  rest  of  our  corps  arrives  from  New  Orleans. 
Lieutenants  Kennedy,  Connors  and  McKeon,  and  sev- 
eral of  the  men,  who  had  been  left  behind,  arrived  here 
yesterday.  The  Sixth  and  Seventh  regiments  are  close 
by  us,  on  our  right.  There  is  very  little  firing  going  on 
in  the  daytime,  but  at  night  they  go  in.  Last  night  there 
was  very  heavy  firing  over  in  the  direction  of  Petersburg. 
There  is  also  heavy  firing  in  the  direction  of  Fort  Dar- 
ling on  the  James  river." 

Writing,  "In  the  woods,  near  the  Leesburg  Turnpike, 
about  15  miles  from  Washington,  Aug.  14,  1864,"  the 


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captain  of  the  Ninth,  just  quoted,  says :  "All  the  troops 
of  the  Ninteenth  Corps,  that  were  stationed  at  Tennally- 
town,  struck  their  tents  about  I  o'clock  this  morning. 
The  air  is  cool  and  refreshing,  caused  by  a  splendid 
shower  last  night.  At  3  o'clock  this  morning,  the  order 
was  given  to  march,  and  we  started  in  the  following 
order:  Gen.  Grover,  and  staff,  on  the  right;  Gen.  Birge, 
and  staff,  next ;  then  our  brigade  and  three  other  brigades 
in  their  respective  order.  Then  followed  the  large  train 
of  ambulances,  brigade,  regimental  and  supply  wagons. 
Forward  we  went  over  the  rough  roads,  our  equipments 
on  our  backs  and  three  days'  rations  in  our  haversacks. 
We  marched  up  hill  and  down  vale,  on  the  roads  and 
through  the  woods.  At  times  it  was  so  dark  we  could  see 
but  a  very  short  distance  ahead  of  us.  The  roads  were  in 
bad  shape,  being  covered  with  small  stones.  Upon  day- 
light appearing,  we  halted  for  ten  minutes,  and  then 
started  again.  At  5  a.  m.  we  crossed  the  celebrated 
Chain  Bridge,  a  beautiful  structure.  Our  band  played  an 
air  while  we  were  crossing.  In  half  an  hour  after,  we 
passed  through  'Fort  Marcy.'  You  will  recollect  that 
our  regiment  is  on  the  right  of  the  line.  The  weather 
had  now  become  very  warm.  We  halted  for  about  ten 
minutes  every  hour.  We  did  not  march  over  two  miles 
an  hour,  owing  to  the  condition  of  the  route.  During  the 
march,  we  had  to  wade  through  two  large  streams.  A 
rest  was  then  ordered  for  the  remainder  of  the  day.  I 
had  some  dry  coffee  in  my  haversack  and  soon  had  some 
of  the  refreshing  beverage  prepared.  Our  beds  consisted 
of  leaves,  with  pieces  of  shelter  tents  spread  over  them. 
Over  us,  we  had  another  piece  of  tent,  rigged  on  sticks. 
My  bed  was  on  the  edge  of  a  stream.  We  are  to  move 
again  at  3  o'clock  to-morrow  morning." 

Writing  the  next  afternoon,  the  same  officer  says :  "We 
were  up  at  2  o'clock  this  morning  and  after  preparing  and 
taking  breakfast,  we  resumed  our  march  at  3  a.  m.  We 
continued  until  noon  when  we  halted  at  this  place  called 


i88    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

'Broad  Run/'  which  is  in  Virginia.  The  day  is  very  warm. 
I  have  returned  from  the  'Run'  where  I  had  a  fine  swim 
and  feel  much  refreshed.  I  have  not  heard  of  any  deaths 
to-day  in  the  division.  Yesterday  there  were  three  or 
four,  due  to  the  heat." 

Under  date  of  "Leesburg,  Va.,  Aug.  18,  1864,"  the 
officer  writes:  "We  left  camp  at  3.30  this  morning,  and 
after  a  tedious  march  reached  the  town  of  Leesburg, 
Va.  It  is  a  beautiful  village.  The  houses  are  nearly  all 
of  brick.  As  the  head  of  the  line  reached  the  village,  the 
bands  of  the  different  regiments  struck  up  appropriate 
airs,  and  with  colors  flying,  we  entered  the  place.  There 
were  a  great  many  people  in  the  streets, — no  young  men 
— but  some  young  ladies  and  many  elderly  people ;  also 
crowds  of  negroes.  The  whites  did  not  seem  to  be 
pleased  with  our  visit.  We  saw  several  girls  seated  at  the 
windows  of  their  homes  but  they  did  not  look  at  us.  They 
are  strong  secessionists.  The  Ninth  encamped  just  out- 
side the  place.  I,  and  several  other  officers,  went  to  the 
hotel  this  evening  to  get  supper.  There  were  several 
ladies  at  the  table, — all  of  them  well  dressed.  The  hotel 
management  charged  us  one  dollar  for  a  cup  of  tea  or 
coffee,  hot  biscuit  and  johnnycake.  After  supper  we  took 
a  walk  about  the  place.  It  is  one  of  the  prettiest  villages 
I  have  ever  been  in.  The  inhabitants  are  very  cheerful. 
We  expect  to  leave  here  in  the  morning." 

The  Ninth  added  to  its  fame,  by  the  part  taken  by  the 
regiment  at  Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  in  July,  1864,  and  at  the 
battle  of  Winchester,  Va.,  Sept.  19,  1864.  Gen.  Philip  H. 
Sheridan,  who  was  of  Irish  parentage,  took  command 
of  the  middle  division  of  the  army  on  Aug.  7,  that  year. 
He  had  three  army  corps, — the  Sixth,  Eighth  and  Nin- 
teenth,  his  forces  including  10,000  cavalry.  Of  Connecti- 
cut regiments  with  Sheridan  at  this  time  "were  the  Sec- 
ond Artillery,  still  fighting  as  infantry  in  Wright's  Sixth 
corps ;  the  Eighteenth  regiment  in  Crook's  Eighth  corps, 
the  First  Cavalry  in  Wilson's  division,  and  the  Ninth, 


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Twelfth  and  Thirteenth  regiments,  which  had  arrived  from 
the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  in  the  Nineteenth  corps." 
Sheridan  established  his  headquarters  at  Harper's  Ferry. 
He  carefully  prepared  for  a  vigorous  campaign,  and  de- 
voted a  month  to  getting  his  forces  well  in  hand.  Gen. 
Early  (Confederate),  wishing  to  flank  him,  attempted  to 
lure  him  up  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  but  Sheridan  was  too 
sagacious  to  be  drawn  into  the  trap.  Instead,  he  kept 
the  entrance  into  Maryland  vigilantly  guarded  against 
Confederate  raids  and  went  ahead  with  his  preparations. 
Gen.  Grant  visited  Sheridan,  Aug.  16,  1864,  to  consider 
the  situation.  The  rest  of  the  narrative  is  thus  told  i1 

"Sheridan  was  anxious  to  begin  offensive  operations. 
The  lieutenant  general  (Grant)  had  confidence  in  him  and, 
after  deliberation,  left  him,  with  the  laconic  order,  "Go 
in !"  Sheridan  and  Early  then  confronted  each  other  at 
Opequan  Creek,  a  few  miles  east  of  Winchester.  Sheri- 
dan watched  his  antagonist  closely,  and  when,  on  Sept. 
18,  Early  weakened  his  lines  by  sending  half  his  army  on 
a  reconnoissance  to  Martinsburg  (which  Averill  re- 
pulsed), Sheridan  put  his  forces  under  arms,  and,  at  3 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  Sept.  19,  they  were  in  motion 
towards  Winchester,  Wilson's  cavalry  leading,  followed 
by  Wright's  and  Emory's  corps.  Wilson  crossed  the 
Opequan  at  dawn,  charging  upon  and  sweeping  away  all 
opposers,  and  securing  a  place,  within  two  miles  of  Win- 
chester, for  the  deployment  of  the  army.  There  they 
formed,  with  Wright's  corps  on  the  left,  flanked  by  Wil- 
son's cavalry,  Emory  in  the  centre,  and  Crook's  Kanawha 
infantry  in  reserve  in  the  rear.  Early  had  turned  back 
towards  Winchester  before  Sheridan  was  ready  for  battle, 
and  strongly  posted  his  men  in  a  fortified  position  on  a 
series  of  detached  hills.  Averill  had  followed  them  closely 
from  Bunker's  Hill,  and  he  and  Merritt  enveloped  Win- 
chester on  the  east  and  north  with  cavalry. 

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NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


"Between  the  two  armies  lay  a  broken,  wooded  country. 
The  Nationals  attempted  to  reach  Early's  vulnerable 
left  wing  and  centre,  and,  in  so  doing,  encountered  a 
terrible  tempest  of  shells.  They  charged  Early's  centre 
furiously  and  carried  his  first  line.  His  skillful  general, 
Rodes,  was  killed.  The  assailing  columns  were  quickly 
hurled  back  by  two  powerful  divisions.  It  seemed,  for  a 
moment,  as  if  the  Nationals  had  lost  the  day.  The  Con- 
federates eagerly  sought  to  seize  the  only  gorge  in  the 
mountains  through  which  the  Nationals  might  retreat, 
if  compelled  to.  This  was  well  defended  by  a  few  troops 
at  first.  Very  soon  the  Confederates  were  pushed  bacK 
to  their  lines.  This  was  followed  by  the  rapid  rallying 
of  the  broken  columns  of  the  Nationals,  and  re-forming 
of  their  line,  wrhich  speedily  advanced.  There  was  now 
a  most  sanguinary  battle  until  4  o'clock  p.  m.,  when  a 
loud  shout  was  heard  from  beyond  the  woods  on  the 
Union  right.  It  was  from  Crook's  (Eighth)  corps  *  * 
*  which,  with  Torbert's  cavalry,  pressed  forward  in  the 
face  of  a  murderous  fire  and  fell  heavily  upon  Early's  left. 

"At  the  same  time  there  was  a  general  charge  upon  the 
Confederate  centre  by  the  infantry,  and  by  Wilson's  cav- 
alry on  Early's  right,  driving  the  Confederates  to  the 
fortified  heights.  Before  5  o'clock  the  latter  were  carried, 
and  Early's  broken  columns  were  flying  through  Win- 
chester and  up  the  valley  towards  Strasburg  in  full  re- 
treat. They  left  behind  them  2,500  of  their  number  as 
prisoners,,  with  nine  battle  flags  and  five  pieces  of  artillery. 
They  were  pursued  until  dark.  The  Confederates  lost 
about  T,OOO  men  besides  the  prisoners.  Sheridan's  loss 
was  about  3,000.  Besides  the  prisoners  taken  in  battle 
there  were  about  3,000  wounded  left  in  Winchester.  " 

As  the  battle  opened,  the  Ninth  was  thrown  forward 
as  skirmishers  and  to  protect  the  right  flank  of  the  Nine- 
teenth corps.  The  advance  videttes  of  the  regiment  were 
the  means  of  having  a  Confederate  battery  captured,  as 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  I9I 

they  kept  firing  at  the  gunners  and  thus  greatly  aided  a 
regiment  of  the  Eighth  corps  which  came  up  and  took 
the  battery.  Some  members  of  the  Ninth  were  wounded 
during  the  engagement.  They  included  Private  Patrick 
Delaney,  of  Company  F,  and  Private  Augustus  S.  Smith, 
of  Company  1.  The  former  belonged  in  Waterbury ;  and 
the  latter  in  Plymouth,  Ct. 

Drum  Major  Healy,  of  the  Ninth  writes :  "After  the 
battle  of  Winchester,  I  was  of  a  party  looking  in  the 
woods  and  ravines  for  the  dead  and  wounded.  I  came 
across  an  officer's  horse  with  full  accoutrements.  The 
horse  had  been  wounded  in  the  fleshy  part  of  the  breast, 
not  dangerously.  He  seemed  glad  he  had  been  dis- 
covered. I  brought  him  into  camp,  doctored  up  his 
wound  and  used  him  to  carry  the  personal  effects  of  my 
drum  corps  and  also  for  foraging.  One  afternoon  I,  with 
six  others,  while  near  Harrisburg,  Va.,  in  the  Shenan- 
doah  Valley,  drove  about  nine  miles,  looking  for  food,  to 
a  deserted  farm  with  plenty  of  goats,  pigs,  potatoes  and 
apples.  I  got  a  pot  of  apple  butter,  a  bag  of  apples  and 
potatoes  and  half  a  hog  and  had  them  tied  to  the  pomel 
of  my  saddle  when  Mosby's  guerrillas  were  seen  in  the 
distance  on  a  run  for  us.  It  was  certain  death  from  the 
enemy  to  any  one  caught  foraging.  I  started  my  horse 
on  a  run  towards  camp,  but  they  were  firing  at  me  and 
were  gaining.  I  cut  loose  all  my  bags  and  that  wounded 
horse  fairly  flew  and  saved  me.  George  Lyon  was  caught. 
He  had  a  $10  greenback  in  his  pocket.  He  put  it  in  his 
shoe  and  they  did  not  find  it.  He  had  to  walk  to  Rich- 
mond. When  he  got  there  the  greenback  was  nothing 
but  pulp." 

It  used  to  be  humorously  declared  that  the  boys  from 
Connecticut,  on  their  march  through  Virginia,  could 
chase  a  fat  porker,  kill  him,  cut  him  up,  and  put  him  in 
their  haversacks,  without  losing  step. 

While  the  Ninth  was  thus  on  the  march,  by  way  of 


192     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL   INFANTRY. 

Leesburg  and  Snicker's  Gap,,  to  Berryville  to  join  Sheri- 
dan, a  musician  of  the  regiment  died  of  sunstroke.  In  his 
delirium  he  had  wandered  into  a  field.  The  surgeon  ex- 
amined him  and  reported  that  there  was  no  hope.  Says 


a  member  of  the  Ninth  :  "The  night  we  crossed  Snicker's 
Gap  we  had  already  been  on  the  march  since  i  o'clock 
the  night  previous.  Tired,  hungry,  barefooted,  it  seemed 
as  though  we  should  never  hear  the  welcome  order 
'Halt!'  Among  the  sick  in  ambulances  were  Surgeon 


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Gallagher  and  two  other  surgeons.  The  roads  were  in 
fearful  condition.  After  joining  Sheridan,  Aug.  17,  1864. 
a  week  or  so  was  spent  by  the  Ninth  in  skirmishing,  forti- 
fying, changing  position,  etc.  One  night  we  moved  hur- 
riedly to  Halltown,  near  Harper's  Ferry — a  few  days 
there — then  back  again  to  Berry  ville.  On  the  morning 
of  Sept.  19,  the  army  was  in  motion  and  before  daylight 
we  of  the  Ninth  could  hear  the  boom  of  the  cannon  in 
the  distance.  At  9.30  a.  m.,  we  left  the  road  and  moved 
to  the  right  under  cover  of  the  hills.  The  shells  were  now 
screaming  over  us,  and  the  rattle  of  musketry  came  to  us 
directly  from  our  left.  We  hurriedly  formed  in  line  of 
battle,  pushed  through  the  dense  woods  and  in  a  few 
moments  were  in  the  roar  of  the  conflict.  At  nightfall, 
after  the  defeat  of  the  enemy,  we  marched  over  the  field 
and  bivouacked  at  Winchester.  We  continued  the  pur- 
suit through  the  day  and  in  the  evening  took  up  a  posi- 
tion on  the  extreme  left  of  our  army.  That  evening,  the 
Ninth  made  a  reconnoissance.  The  next  day,  we  were 
ordered  to  hold  a  ford  at  the  foot  of  a  mountain  still 
further  to  the  left.  Crossing  the  railroad,  the  Ninth 
moved  through  an  open  field  to  the  river  several  hundred 
yards  distant.  Two  of  our  companies  forded  the  stream, 
the  rest  forming  along  a  fence  on  the  bank.  In  a  short 
time,  we  heard  the  'Rebel  yell'  and  a  brigade  swept  down 
from  the  heights  upon  our  boys  who  fell  back  under  a 
terrible  fire.  The  water  of  the  river  seemed  to  fairly  boil 
with  the  splash  of  the  bullets.  Amid  the  confusion,  eight 
companies  of  the  Ninth  fell  back  to  the  railroad,  leaving 
the  Colonel  and  two  companies  near  the  river,  the  enemy 
being  in  such  proximity  that  retreat  was  impossible. 
Sharp  firing  was  kept  up  all  day,  without  much  damage 
being  done  on  either  side.  The  rebels  not  knowing  our 
weakness  failed  to  cross  and  attack  us.  Our  loss  was  two 
killed  and  five  wounded.  Under  cover  of  the  darkness 
we  fell  back  to  the  main  body,  but  in  the  morning  re- 
turned to  our  old  position  in  time  for  the  battle  of  Fisher's 
Hill,  Va." 
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1 94    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Driven  from  Winchester,  Early  and  his  forces  did  not 
halt  until  they  reached  Fisher's  Hill,  the  point  just  men- 
tioned. This  was  beyond  Strasburg  and  20  miles  from 
the  Winchester  battlefield.  Fisher's  Hill  was  strongly 
fortified.  Sheridan  had  sent  a  despatch  to  the  Secretary 
of  War,  stating  that  "We  have  just  sent  the  enemy 
whirling  through  Winchester,  and  are  after  them  to- 
morrow." And  he  kept  his  word.  On  Sept.  22,  1864,  he 
appeared  before  Fisher's  Hill  where  the  Confederates 
under  Early  were  entrenched.  Sheridan  ordered  Crook's 
corps  to  gain  the  rear  of  the  Confederate  position,  and 
with  Weight's  and  Emory's  corps  advanced  to  the  attack 
of  the  left  and  front.  The  assault  was  vigorously  made 
and,  notwithstanding  a  vigorous  resistance,  the  Confed- 
erates were  driven  in  great  disorder  up  the  valley,  leaving 
behind  over  1,000  prisoners  and  sixteen  pieces  of  artillery. 
Sheridan  pursued  to  Port  Republic  where  he  destroyed 
a  Confederate  train  of  75  wagons.  His  cavalry  continued 
the  pursuit  to  Staunton,  where  Early  had  found  shelter 
in  the  passes  of  the  Blue  Ridge.  The  Union  cavalry  de- 
stroyed a  great  amount  of  stores  at  Staunton,  and  then 
proceeded  to  Waynesborough  and  visited  destruction 
upon  the  Virginia  Central  railroad.  Sheridan's  army  then 
moved  down  the  Shenandoah  valley,  inflicting  great,  but 
necessary,  damage  and  leaving  nothing  that  would  "invite 
the  enemy  to  return/' 

The  Ninth's  term  of  service  as  a  regiment  being  about 
to  expire,  measures  were  taken  to  organize  those  who 
had  reenlisted,  into  a  battalion.  The  following  was 

issued: 

HEADQUARTERS,  NINETEENTH  ARMY  CORPS, 

NEAR  CEDAR  CREEK,  VA., 

October  12,  1864. 
Special  Orders  No.  59. 

(Extract) : 

Pursuant  to  Special  Orders  No.  53,  Ex.  3,  Headquar- 
ters Middle  Military  Division,  the  recruits  and  re-enlisted 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  195 

men  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Volunteers  will  be  consoli- 
dated into  a  Battalion  of  four  companies  to  be  com- 
manded by  senior  Captain. 

The  companies  will  be  designated  respectively  as  A, 
B,  C,  D,  and  the  following  will  be  the  assignment  of  offi- 
cers retained  by  Special  Orders  No.  53,  Headquarters 
Middle  Military  Division : 

COMPANY  A. 

Captain,  John  G.  Healy. 
First  Lieutenant,  G.  T.  Scott. 
Second  Lieutenant,  Thomas  Connors. 

COMPANY  B. 

Captain,  T.  Sheridan. 

First  Lieutenant,  M.  Mullins. 

Second  Lieutenant,  C.  Streit. 

COMPANY  C. 

Captain,  W.  A.  Lee. 

First  Lieutenant,  D.  C.  Warner. 

Second  Lieutenant,  J.  H.  Lincoln. 

COMPANY  D. 

First  Lieutenant,  J.  W.  Graham. 
Second  Lieutenant,  to  be  selected. 

The  men  will  be  assigned  as  follows :  98  men  to  Com- 
pany A,  98  men  to  Company  B,  98  men  to  Company  C, 
and  90  men  to  Company  D,  to  be  assigned  by  senior 
officer. 

The  Non-Commissioned  Staff  will  be  retained. 

By  order  of 
Brevet  Major-General  EMORY, 

DUNCAN  L.  WALKER,  A.  A.  G. 


196   NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Under  command  of  Captain  Healy,  the  Ninth  Bat- 
talion, thus  organized,  bore  a  very  conspicuous  part  in 
the  battle  of  Cedar  Creek,  October  19,  1864,  its  flag  being 
the  first  planted  on  the  recaptured  works  of  the  enem^. 
In  this  desperate  action  the  Ninth  lost  thirty  men  in 
killed  and  wounded. 

Col.  Cahill,  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon,  Major  Frye,  Ad- 
jutant Kattenstroth,  Quartermaster  Fitz  Gibbon,  Surgeon 
Gallagher  and  other  officers  of  the  regiment  were  honor- 
ably discharged  Oct.  26,  1864,  their  term  of  service  hav- 
ing expired. 


LIEUT.  COL.  JOHN  G.  HEALY. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

THE  NINTH  BATTALION  AT  THE  BATTLE  OF  CEDAR  CREEK, 

VA. GREAT    ENTHUSIASM   GREETS   SHERIDAN    ON   HIS 

ARRIVAL  FROM  WINCHESTER PRAISE  FOR  THE  COLOR 

BEARERS    OF    THE    NINTH GEN.    BIRGE    THANKS    THE 

BATTALION  FOR  ITS  GALLANT  WORK THE  COMMAND 

AT   SAVANNAH,    GA. THE   MUSTER    OUT   AND    RETURN 

HOME CASUALTIES    OF    REGIMENT    AND    BATTALION 

DURING  THE  WAR. 

CAPT.  John  G.  Healy,  senior  captain  of  the  Ninth 
Battalion,  C.  V.,  was  made  lieutenant  colonel  Dec. 
i,  1864.  He  commanded  the  Battalion  throughout  its 
whole  period  of  service,  and  was  mustered  out  with  the 
command,  Aug.  3,  1865.  The  Battalion  rendered  valiant 
service  and  was  one  of  the  most  efficient  of  the  veteran 
organizations.  It  participated  in  the  battle  of  Cedar 
Creek,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1864,  an(l  was  among  the  commands 
to  welcome  Sheridan  as  he  dashed  along  on  his  famous 
ride  from  Winchester. 

After  the  battle  of  Fisher's  Hill,  in  Virginia,  fought  in 
1864,  in  which  the  Union  forces  achieved  such  a 
great  victory,  Sheridan  went  to  Washington  on  official 
business,  leaving  Gen.  Wright  in  command.  His  forces 
were  strongly  posted  at  Cedar  Creek,  and  no  attack  from 
the  enemy  was  expected.  Nevertheless,  it  came.  Early, 
the  Confederate  commander,  keenly  felt  the  defeat  he  had 
received  and  determined  to  strike  a  blow  in  an  attempt  to 
reverse  the  conditions.  Reinforced  by  Kershaw's  divi- 
sion, and  600  cavalry  sent  him  by  Lee,  he  decided  on  a 
bold  and  swift  movement  against  the  Federals.  He  ac- 
cordingly secretly  assembled  his  forces  behind  a  mask 
of  thick  woods,  at  Fisher's  Hill,  and  formed  them  in  two 
columns.  Soon  after  midnight,  Oct.  19,  1864,  he  moved 
to  make  a  simultaneous  attack  upon  both  flanks  of  the 


198    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Union  army.  His  right  column  consisted  of  the  divisions 
of  Gordon,  Ramseur,  and  Pegram ;  his  left  of  those  of 
Wharton  and  Kershaw.  At  dawn,  he  fell  upon  the 
Federals,  striking  them  on  the  right,  left  and  rear. 

So  furious  and  unexpected  was  the  assault  that  the 
Federals  were  taken  by  surprise  and  thrown  into  great 
confusion.  "In  fifteen  minutes,"  says  an  account  of  the 
fight,  "Crook's  corps,  that  held  a  position  in  front,  and 
had  heard  mysterious  sounds  like  the  dull,  heavy  tramp 
of  an  army,  was  broken  into  fragments,  and  sent  flying 
back  in  disorder  upon  the  corps  of  Emory  and  Wright. 
Crook  left  700  men  as  prisoners  with  many  cannon,  small 
arms,  and  munitions  of  war,  in  the  hands  of  the  Confed- 
erates. Emory  tried  in  vain  to  stop  the  fugitives,  but  very 
soon  his  own  corps  gave  way,  leaving  several  guns  be- 
hind. These,  with  Crook's,  eighteen  in  all,  were  turned 
upon  the  fugitives  with  fearful  effect." 

Gen.  Wright,  recognizing  the  peril  of  the  Union  army, 
ordered  a  general  retreat.  This  retreat  was  covered  by 
the  Sixth  Corps,  under  Ricketts,  which  had  maintained 
its  organization.  The  army  retreated  five  miles  to  the 
village  of  Middletown.  Here  Wright  rallied  his  columns 
and  fell  back  some  distance  further.  It  was  now  10  a.  m., 
and  the  Union  army  had  lost  since  dawn  1,200  men  who 
were  taken  prisoners,  many  killed  and  wounded,  24  can- 
non, and  much  other  property.  The  Confederates  hav- 
ing ceased  their  pursuit  for  the  time,  Wright  re-formed 
his  forces  and  took  up  a  position  where  he  could  advance 
or  retreat  as  circumstances  might  require. 

It  was  at  this  critical  juncture  that  Sheridan  came 
rushing  to  the  rescue.  Returning  from  Washington,  he 
passed  the  night  at  Winchester.  In  the  early  morn  he 
had  heard  the  sound  of  artillery,  but  concluded  that 
nothing  more  than  a  reconnoissance  was  in  progress. 
Mounted  on  a  black  horse,  he  leisurely  moved  out  of 
Winchester.  Before  long,  however,  he  met  the  first  of 
the  fugitives  and  learned  of  the  disaster.  Instantly 


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roused  to  vigorous  action,  he  urged  his  horse  forward 
at  full  speed  and  started  on  a  ride  that  has  now  become 
historic.  Shouting  orders  as  he  passed  along,  he  waved 
his  hat  and  cried  to  the  retreating  hosts :  "Face  the  other 
way,  boys !  face  the  other  way !  We  are  going  back  to 
our  camp !  We  are  going  to  lick  them  out  of  their 
boots !" 

His  appearance  and  words  aroused  tremendous  en- 
thusiasm. Companies  began  to  get  in  line,  regiments  to 
form  and  soon  the  headlong  retreat  was  checked  and  the 
army  was  on  its  way  back  to  meet  the  Confederates. 

Among  the  organizations  that  cheered  Sheridan  as  he 
passed,  and  turned  and  followed  his  lead  was  the  Ninth 
Battalion,  C.V.,  Lieut.  Col.  John  G.  Healy1  commanding, 
which  participated  in  the  victory  that  ensued.  The  re- 
formed Union  army  fell  upon  the  Confederates  with  so 
much  vigor  that  the  latter  were  soon  in  full  retreat.  That 
night  Sheridan's  forces  were  in  their  old  location  at  Cedar 
Creek. 

When  Early  had  unexpectedly  attacked  the  Union 
army  at  dawn,  the  Ninth  Battalion,  C.  V.,  promptly  re- 
ported at  the  breastworks.  Notwithstanding  the  great 
confusion  prevailing,  the  Battalion  presented  a  brave 
front  and  was  kept  well  in  hand  by  its  commander  and 
other  officers.  The  Battalion  was  soon  ordered  down  the 
hill.  "As  we  reached  the  foot,"  says  Col.  Healy,  "an  aide 
of  Gen.  Birge  ordered  us  back  up  the  hill,  and  we  re- 
turned in  good  order,  and  delivered  another  volley  at  the 
advancing  enemy."  So  the  Ninth  fell  back,  bravely 
fighting. 

When  Sheridan  arrived  and  the  Union  rout  was 
checked  and  turned  into  an  attack  upon  the  Confederates, 
the  Ninth  Battalion  was  in  the  forefront  of  the  fray.  At 
one  time  during  the  charge,  Col.  Healy  seized  the  colors 
and  waving  them  aloft,  shouted  to  his  command :  "Come 
on,  boys,  follow  me!"  He  was  answered  with  a  tre- 
mendous cheer  and  the  battalion  rushed  on.  Lieut.  Col. 

1  Then  the  senior  captain. 


200    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Healy  in  his  report  says:  "I  desire  to  make  particular 
mention  of  Sergeant  W.  Perry,  and  Private  John  T.  Mor- 
row, who,  after  the  color-sergeant  had  been  wounded, 
seized  the  colors  and  pushed  forward.  These  men  were 
always  in  the  advance,  few,  if  any,  color-bearers  being 
able  to  keep  up  with  them.  The  colors  of  my  battalion 
were  the  first  on  the  recaptured  works  from  where  the 
corps  had  been  driven  in  the  morning.  In  less  than  five 
minutes,  no  less  than  a  dozen  stands  of  colors  were 
around  us." 

The  total  loss  to  the  Confederates  was  2,000  killed  and 
wounded,  and  1,500  prisoners.  It  was  practically  the  end 
of  Early's  operations  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley. 

Capt.  Garry  T.  Scott,  of  the  Ninth,  wrote  the  following 
letter  about  this  time : 

CAMP  OF  THE  NINTH  BATTALION,  CONNECTICUT  VET- 
ERAN VOLUNTEERS,  ARMY  OF  THE  VALLEY, 

CEDAR  CREEK,  VA.,  Oct.  24,  1864. 
DEAR  : 

We  have  had  another  big  battle  and  another  glorious 
victory.  The  battle  lasted  from  before  5  in  the  morning 
until  dark. 

The  rebels  surprised  the  Eighth  corps,  and  got  inside 
the  works,  before  they  knew  it.  We  were  driven  out  of 
our  fortifications  and  fell  back  several  miles.  But  in  the 
afternoon  we,  (the  Ninteenth  corps),  succeeded  in  turn- 
ing their  right  flank ;  when  we  charged  them,  driving 
them  from  our  works,  and  up  the  valley,  in  confusion. 

Gen.  Grover,  our  division  commander,  was  wounded 
in  the  arm,  and  his  inspector  general  was  killed.  .  Our 
loss  was  heavy  but  not  so  great  as  that  of  the  Johnnies. 
The  Ninth  was  commanded  by  Capt.  John  G.  Healy,  who 
showed  himself  a  brave  officer,  and  the  men  acquitted 
themselves  nobly. 

We  were  complimented  by  Gen.  Birge,  our  brigade 
commander.  Our  colors  were  the  first  planted  on  the 


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recaptured  works  and  were  the  first  to  advance  in  the 
charge.  I  wish  to  speak  of  the  bearer  of  the  U.  S.  colors, 
John  T.  Morrow,  a  private  who  enlisted  while  the  regi- 
ment was  home  last  summer.  He  took  them  early  in 
the  battle,  when  the  color  sergeant  was  wounded,  and  car- 
ried them  the  remainder  of  the  day  with  credit  to  himself 
and  to  the  Ninth. 

The  state  colors  were  carried  by  Capt.  Healy  during 
the  first  part  of  the  charge,  but  finding  that  he  could  not 
give  orders  freely  while  carrying  the  flag,  he  handed  it 
to  Sergt.  Perry,  of  Company  D,  who  bore  it  until  it  was 
planted  beside  the  others  on  the  works.  The  loss  of  our 
battalion  was  small,  considering  the  time  we  were  under 
fire  and  the  exposed  condition  of  our  men  during  the 
whole  day  *  *  *  .  G.  T.  SCOTT. 


Capt.  James  W.  Graham,  of  the  Ninth,  in  mentioning, 
some  years  ago,  his  recollections  of  the  war,  stated :  "To 
those  of  us  who  remained  in  the  service,  and  carried  the 
flag  of  the  old  Ninth  till  the  end  of  the  war,  it  seems  as 
if  some  of  its  best  work  was  done  when  reduced  to  a  bat- 
talion of  four  companies.  I  know  that  at  the  battle  of 
Cedar  Creek,  which  was  fought  after  the  regimental  or- 
ganization had  ceased  to  exist,  the  Ninth  greatly  distin- 
guished itself.  In  the  charge  that  broke  the  Confeder- 
ate line  in  the  afternoon,  and  turned  the  tide  into  a  Union 
victory,  the  colors  of  the  Battalion  were  in  the  van  of  all 
other  flags  on  that  field.  I  know  that  the  man  who  car- 
ried the  national  flag  was  a  private  soldier,  and  I  remem- 
ber the  two  officers  and  one  corporal  who  crossed  the 
open  field  between  the  lines  with  him.  These  were  the 
four  daring  spirits  who  led  the  Federal  army  in  the  vic- 
torious charge  that  finally  overthrew  Early  and  ended  the 
valley  campaign." 

Private  John  McKenna  of  the  Battalion,  speaking  of 
his  own  experiences  states  that  "I  was  twice  taken  pris- 
oner at  Cedar  Creek,  but  got  away  from  them  in  time  to 
be  in  the  line  when  Sheridan  rode  up." 


202     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

"When  Gen.  Sheridan  came  upon  the  field  after  his 
famous  ride  from  Winchester,"  observes  a  writer,  "the 
troops  were  ready  for  the  valiant  commander.  As  he 
approached  the  Ninth,  Capt.  Fisk,  of  Burgess'  staff, 
pointed  out  that  during  that  trying  day  the  Battalion  had 
not  for  a  moment  become  demoralized.  Sheridan 
glanced  at  the  Ninth,  and  the  soldiers  cheered  in  a  way 
that  must  have  warmed  the  general's  heart.  He  rode  close 
to  the  command,  and  Private  Morrow  shouted:  "Go  in, 
General !  Wre'll  follow  you  !"  "I'll  lead  you  back  to  your 
old  camp !"  was  the  hoarse  response.  In  the  headlong 
charge  which  followed,  the  Ninth  held  the  advance." 

The  headquarters  of  the  Ninth  were  at  Cedar  Creek, 
Va.,  until  Dec.  9,  1864,  and  were  then  removed  to  Camp 
Russell,  Va.,  about  ten  miles  from  Cedar  Creek.  In  this 
new  location  the  Battalion  remained  until  Dec.  30,  when 
it  moved  to  Stevenson  Depot,  Va.  Its  headquarters 
were  next  at  Camp  Sheridan,  Va.,  and  were  then  changed 
to  Camp  Kearney.  The  command  embarked  on  the 
transport  Gen.  Scdgwick,  Jan.  10,  1865.  The  latter  at 
first  proceeded  to  Fortress  Monroe  where  Col.  Healy 
went  ashore  and  reported.  The  next  morning  the  steam- 
ship Ariel,  with  three  other  regiments  of  the  brigade,  ar- 
rived. The  whole  force  was  then  ordered  to  Newport 
News,  Va.,  there  to  disembark,  and  send  the  steamers 
back  to  Fortress  Monroe.  Orders  were  also  given  to 
have  fifteen  days'  rations  put  aboard.  The  Ninth  and 
the  other  commands  went  into  camp  that  night.  At 
midnight,  an  order  was  received  by  the  brigade  com- 
mander to  have  the  troops  ready  at  7  o'clock,  the  next 
morning,  for  embarkation  as  the  steamers  would  then 
be  ready.  Col.  Healy  received  sealed  orders  and,  upon 
opening  them  at  sea,  found  that  the  Ninth  was  to  go  to 
Savannah,  Ga. 

On  the  way,  could  be  seen  the  masts  of  the  blockading 
fleet  off  Charleston,  S.  C.  In  due  time,  the  steamer  with 
the  Ninth  aboard  dropped  anchor  off  Tybee  Island  light. 


204    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Battalion  was  among  the  troops  commanded  by  Gen.  Q. 
A.  Gillmore.  It  was  mustered  out  during  the  first  week 
in  August,  1865,  and  thereupon  returned  to  New  Haven. 
It  reached  the  latter  city  on  Aug.  8,  and  was  cordially  re- 
ceived. It  was  escorted  to  the  State  House,  welcomed 
by  Mayor  Scranton  and  a  great  concourse  and  hospitably 
entertained.  Of  Regiment  and  Battalion  we  may  say,  in 
the  words  of  the  poet  Mary  E.  Blake : 

"Home ! 
With  silken  folds  of  the  banner  torn 

In  gaps,  with  the  sunlight  streaming  through, 
The  bayonets  gleam  from  the  muskets  worn, 

And  stain  and  dust  on  the  army  blue ; 
Back  from  the  battle-fields  far  away 

Their  medals  of  bronze  on  cheek  and  brow, 
They  came  thro'  the  city  streets  to-day, — 

Our  Legion  of  Honor  we  call  them  now. 


"Home! 
Many  had  reached  it  long  ago, 

Not  the  place  that  our  hearts  had  planned, — 
The  fireside  rest  that  their  feet  should  know, 

Who  came  to  us  back  from  the  direful  land, — 
But  a  sweeter  rest — which  never  shall  cease — 

Than  the  deepest  depth  of  our  love  could  give, 
Where  God  himself  is  the  light  of  Peace, 

And  the  ransomed  soldiers  of  freedom  live." 

We  have  already  given  lists  of  officers  and  men  of  the 
Ninth  who  are  recorded  as  having  "died"  during  the 
years  1862,  1863  and  1864,  the  greater  part  of  them  of  dis- 
ease contracted  in  the  service.  Among  those  who  died 
in  1865,  (Battalion),  were  Corporal  Charles  Coote,  of 
Haven,  Private  Michael  Harrigan,  of  New  Haven,  and 
Private  William  Goodall  of  Derby. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  members  of  the  Regiment, 
and  Battalion,  who  were  killed,  wounded,  injured,  or 
captured  during  the  war: 


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A  LIST  OF  THE  KILLED. 
Name.  Where  Killed. 

Sergt.  Frederick  Jewett St.  John's  Parish,  La. 

Corporal  John  P.  Coen1 Kennerville,  La. 

Corporal  John  Thrall Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Robert  Walsh1 Ship  Island,  Miss. 

Private  Mark  O'Neil2 New  Orleans,  La. 

Private  Patrick  Lynch Bona  Casa,  La. 

Private  John  Ryan,  2d3 Place  not  shown. 

Private  William  J.  Thompson Fisher's  Hill,  Va. 

Private  John  Sullivan4 Place  not  shown. 

Private  William  Finke5 Baton  Rouge,  La. 

Private  Matthew  Hecker5 Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Charles  Redinger Fisher's  Hill,Va. 

Private  Edward  Roe Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Charles  Montague Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

A  LIST  OF  THE  WOUNDED.6 
Name.  Where  wounded. 

Lieut.  Lawrence  O'Brien Near  Camp  Parapet,  La. 

Lieut.  Francis  McKeon Grand  Gulf,  Miss. 

Sergt.  Charles  W.  Alcott Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Sergt.  Nicholas  Comiskey Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Sergt.  Philip  Reilly Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Corporal  John  Klitter Baton  Rouge,  La. 

Corporal  William  McGrane Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Corporal  James  Dolan Chattahoola  Station,  La. 

Corporal  James  Orr Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  John  Leonard Pass  Christian,  Miss. 

Private  Herman  Rowland Place  not  shown. 

Private  Thomas  Campbell Baton  Rouge,  La. 

Private  Erin  Burlingame Baton  Rouge,  La. 

Private  John  Fitz  Gibbon Carrollton,  La. 

1  Accidentally. 

2  Assassinated. 

3  Killed  after  transfer  to  First  Texas  Cavalry. 

4  Fatally  assaulted. 

6  Missing  in  action,  probably  killed. 
8  Some  of  these  died  of  their  wounds. 


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Private  Michael  Grogan Parish  of  St.  James,  La. 

Private  Bernard  Shafty New  Orleans,  La. 

Private  Patrick  Burke Bona  Casa,  La. 

Private  Ernest  Dresher Chattahoola  Station,  La. 

Private  Francis  Judge Chattahoola  Station,  La. 

Private  George  Robinson Chattahoola  Station,  La. 

Private  James  Leary Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss. 

Private  Charles  Decker St.  John's  Parish,  La. 

Private  Thomas  Kenney ,  Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss. 

Private  Peter  Devlin Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss. 

Private  James  Lydon Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss 

Private  David  Almond St.  John's  Parish,  La. 

Private  Patrick  Cronan, 

Baton  Rouge,  La. ;  Fisher's  Hill.,  Va.,  and  Cedar 
Creek,  Va. 

Private  George  Hoey Strasburg,  Va. 

Private  Frank  McGarr Strasburg,  Va. 

Private  John  H.  Ward Berryville,  Va. 

Private  Patrick  Delaney Winchester,  Va. 

Private  Joel  L.  Butler Strasburg,  Va. 

Private  Augustus  S.  Smith Winchester,  Va. 

Private  George  F.  Cooke Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Frederick  Kline Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Terence  McDonnell Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Matthias  Scion Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  John  Fahy Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Heenan  Greenhart Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Julius  Sanders Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

A  LIST  OF  THE  INJURED.  ' 
Name.  Where  Injured. 

Musician  Patrick  Flanigan Fisher's  Hill,  Va. 

Private  Martin  Burke Ship  Island,  Miss. 

Private  Stephen  Hunter Fort  Jackson,  La. 

Private  Charles  Hurlburt,  Jr Vicksburg,  Miss. 

Private  Malachi  Noonan Bolivar  Heights,  Va. 

1  Distinguished  from  wounded. 


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A  LIST  OF  THE  CAPTURED. 
Name.  Where  Captured. 

Lieut.  Thomas  Connors Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Sergt.  John  Carney Pass  Manchac,  La. 

Sergt.  Thomas  Kennedy Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Sergt.  Peter  Donnelly Chattahoola  Station,  La. 

Sergt.  Edward  Bolger Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  John  L.  McKay Pass  Manchac,  La. 

Private  Charles  Reynolds Chattahoola  Station,  La. 

Private  Joseph  Dronant Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss. 

Private  Patrick  Gray1 Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss. 

Private  John  I.  Cain1 Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss. 

Private  Garrett  Birmingham2 Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Patrick  Cullen Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Patrick  Hickey Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  John  Brown2 Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Otto  Lefevre3 Tickfaro  Bridge,  La. 

Private  Charles  Michalk3 San  Ruciso,  Texas. 

Private  John  McKenna Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  John  J.  Foley Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  William  Casheen2 Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

Private  Joseph  Anderson Cedar  Creek,  Va. 

While  the  Ninth  did  not  have  as  many  men  killed  in 
battle  as  some  of  the  Connecticut  regiments,  the  aggre- 
gate number  of  casualties  of  all  kinds — killed,  wounded, 
victims  of  disease,  etc. — in  the  command,  (Regiment  and 
Battalion),  reacher  a  heavy  total,  surpassed  or  equaled  by 
few  organizations  in  the  service. 

1  Died  at  Andersonville,  Ga. 

2  Died  at  Salisbury,  N.  C. 

3  After  transfer  to  First  Texas  Cavalry. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 

REGIMENTAL   REUNIONS   BY  SURVIVORS   OF  THE   NINTH 

ENTHUSIASM  AROUSED  BY  THE  OLD  BATTLE  FLAGS  OF 

THE     ORGANIZATION MOVEMENT    TO     RESTORE     THE 

CAPTURED   COLORS   OF  THE  THIRD   MISSISSIPPI    REGI- 
MENT  THE  PROJECT  IS  CARRIED  TO  FRUITION THE 

CONNECTICUT   DELEGATION    WELCOMED    TO    NEW   OR- 
LEANS  RECEPTION  BY  EX-CONFEDERATE  SOLDIERS. 

THE  Ninth  has  had  several  regimental  reunions  since 
the  war,  and  these  occasions  have  always  been  of 
great  interest.  A  reunion  was  held  at  North  Haven,  Ct., 
in  Aug.,  1874,  and  we  are  indebted  to  one  of  the  New 
Haven  daily  papers  of  the  time  for  the  following  account 
of  the  event : 

The  Ninth's  business  meeting  was  held  in  a  picnic 
building  in  the  grove.  It  was  called  to  order  by  Capt. 
Garry  T.  Scott,  Hartford.  Capt.  Curtis,  cashier  of  a 
bank  in  Tidioute,  state  of  Pennsylvania,  and  formerly  of 
Bridgeport,  Ct.,  was  made  chairman  of  the  meeting  and 
president  of  the  association  for  the  year  ensuing.  Lieut. 
Wm.  Gleeson,  New  Haven,  was  appointed  corresponding 
secretary,  and  Lieut.  O'Keefe,  of  New  Haven,  recording 
secretary.  Col.  J.  G.  Healy  was  nominated  for  vice- 
president  but  declined,  and  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  of 
New  Haven,  was  appointed.  Father  Daniel  Mullen,  of 
Norwich,  who  was  the  first  chaplain  of  the  regiment,  was 
appointed  chaplain. 

Geo.  Cook,  of  Bridgeport,  treasurer,  was  reappointed 
as  such.  The  following,  on  motion  of  Dr.  Gallagher, 
were  appointed  the  executive  committee  for  the  ensuing 
year,  after  some  discussion  in  reference  to  the  next  re- 
union :  Dr.  Rollin  McNeil,  New  Haven ;  Sergeant  Hill, 
Bridgeport ;  Capt.  Scott,  Hartford.  The  committee  was 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  2O9 

authorized  to  confer  with  a  corresponding  committee 
from  the  Twelfth,  with  reference  to<  holding  a  joint  re- 
union. Lieut.  Gleeson  read  the  minutes  of  last  year's 
meeting  in  the  absence  of  Lieut.  Curtis,  brother  of  the 
chairman.  The  subject  of  ascertaining  the  whereabouts 
of  each  and  every  survivor  of  the  regiment  was  discussed 
and  referred  temporarily.  Geo.  Cook,  of  Bridgeport, 
treasurer,  read  the  financial  report,  showing  a  small  sum 
in  the  treasury. 

On  motion  of  Capt.  O'Brien,  it  was  voted  to  request 
the  chaplain  to  ascertain  the  names  of  the  dead  of  the 
regiment.  It  was  agreed  that  the  work  would  be  quite  a 
task  for  the  reverend  gentleman,  but  it  was  also  agreed 
that  each  veteran  lighten  the  labor  by  furnishing  such  in- 
formation as  was  in  his  knowledge  upon  the  subject. 
Letters  were  read  by  the  secretary  last  year  from  Mr. 
Anderson,  of  Hamburg;  George  W.  Avery,  Hartford, 
former  assistant  surgeon  of  the  regiment;  Richard  Fitz 
Gibbon,  of  Bridgeport,  who  was  lieutenant  colonel 
of  the  regiment ;  Nathan  B.  Hale,  of  Portland,  Me. ; 
Adjutant  Henry  Kattenstroth,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
(detained  by  illness  of  his  wife) ;  and  Captain  Wright,  of 
New  Orleans.  Capt.  Wright  wrote  a  long  and  interest- 
ing letter  in  which  he  said  he  had  just  returned  from  a  trip 
to  Madisonville,  La.,  where  the  regiment  was  encamped 
eleven  years  before,  and  gave  a  description  of  the  present 
appearance  of  the  "old  camp  ground,"  and  made  humor- 
ous allusions  to  Captains  Garvey,  Williams,  Scott, 
and  others,  which  were  hailed  with  merriment.  The 
"skeletons  of  the  orphan  geese"  at  Camp  Parapet  were 
mentioned,  and  Capt.  Coates  was  challenged  to  answer  a 
conundrum  in  conection  with  that  topic.  Capt.  Wright 
is  now  colonel  and  assistant  inspector  general  of  the 
Louisiana  State  Militia.  The  letter  received  from  Gen. 
B.  F.  Butler  last  year  was  read,  the  same  having  been  re- 
ceived too  late  to  be  read  at  the  reunion  last  year.  The 
history  was  then  read  by  the  historian,  Dr.  McNeil,  of  this 
14 


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city,  and  was  in  his  usual  interesting,  graphic  and  humor- 
ous style.  We  append  the  spicy  letter  of  Captain  Wright 
herewith  : 

NEW  ORLEANS,  La.,  Aug.  i8th,  1874. 

Lieut.  W.  GLEESON,  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Qth 
Reg.  C.  V.  Association: 

Dear  Comrade : — Your  very  kind  favor  of  August  I2th 
is  just  at  hand,  for  which  I  am  truly  thankful.  I  only 
wish  I  could  be  with  you  on  the  25th  inst.  I  know  I 
would  spend  a  happy  time.  I  never  can  forget  the  gth 
Connecticut ;  no  lighter  hearted  set  of  boys  ever  left  home 
to  battle  for  a  great  cause  than  those  dear  comrades,  who 
are  assembled  after  the  circling  of  another  year  of  peace. 
As  you  sit  around  talking  of  the  past,  permit  me  to  try 
to  interest  you.  I  took  a  run  over  to  Madisonville  yes- 
terday and  again  surveyed  the  ground  whereon  you  were 
encamped  in  1863. 

To  my  utter  surprise,  I  found  everything  in  the  same 
condition  as  when  you  were  last  there,  not  even  a  stone 
displaced.  The  village  has  not  changed  one  particle. 
There  is  just  the  same  number  of  houses  with  the  same 
number  of  shingles  thereon.  There  are  the  two  old  rusty 
boilers  that  were  in  the  saw  mill  when  burned  down ; 
there  is  not  even  a  brick  removed.  It  would  seem  that 
the  ingenuity  and  hand  of  man  was  not  destined  to  lift 
this  section  of  our  country  out  of  its  long,  deep  sleep. 
There  are  the  identical  old  logs  half  burned,  still  lying 
around  as  of  yore. 

There  is  the  modest  little  French  chapel,  with  its  clean 
white-draped  altar  precisely  as  it  was  eleven  years  ago, 
when  the  boys  of  the  Ninth  presented  its  worthy  curate 
with  a  memento  worthy  of  the  regiment. 

Closing  my  eyes,  I  took  a  seat  on  one  of  those  old  logs, 
and  commenced  to  dream.  There  I  see  Captain  Garvey 
mounted  on  a  fine  charger,  showing  the  boys  how  to  toss 
a  fence.  Again  I  see  Capt.  Williams.  The  captain  has 
his  trousers  tucked  into  his  military  boots,  and  is  followed 
by  a  crowd  amongst  whom  I  recognize  Jerry  and 
Johnnie  Beatty,  McDonough,  of  the  Second  Louisiana 
Cavalry,  and  a  host  of  others.  There  is  fun  ahead  and 
Capt.  Williams  is  the  boy  to  find  it.  I  believe  they  mean 
to  wake  our  quondam  friend  Garry  Scott,  and  so  they  do. 


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Do  any  of  you  remember  the  wake  ?    Well,  it  was  all  that 
a  wake  ought  to  be. 

*  *  *  I  have  just  returned  from  Camp  Parapet, 
where  I  saw  the  skeletons  of  those  orphaned  geese  that 
Capt.  Tom  Coates  had  arrested  for  disloyalty.  After  their 
capture,  Tom  swore  that  they  refused  to  take  the  oath  of 
allegiance,  and  so  he  placed  them  in  durance.  I  expect 
the  spirits  of  those  geese  are  haunting  Coates  to  this  day. 
How  is  that,  Tom  ?  You  remember  that  after  dinner  you 
swore  they  were  the  identical  geese  that  nibbled  the  grass 
from  off  Adam's  grave.  Frye,  Kennedy,  Lawler  and 
Wright  are  well,  and  desire  to  be  kindly  remembered  to 
the  boys.  What  has  that  committee  done  about  the 
"monument  for  Chalmette?"  Come,  comrades,  don't 
sleep  over  that  project;  it  is  one  well  worthy  your  best 
efforts.  Your  comrades  who  are  at  rest  on  the  banks  of 
the  Mississippi  are  worthy  of  a  remembrance.  You  will 
please  convey  our  kindest  regards  to  the  members  of  the 
1 2th,  who  I  see  will  be  assembled  with  you  on  the  25th 
inst.  Wishing  you  all  health  and  happiness,  I  am,  with 
profound  respect,  your  comrade,  WM  WRIGHT> 

Late  Captain  of  the  gth  Regiment,  C.  V.,  and  now 
Colonel  and  Assistant  Inspector-General  of  the  S.  N. 
Guard. 


In  Sept.,  1879,  tne  battle  flags  of  the  Connecticut  regi- 
ments were  transferred  from  the  Arsenal  in  Hartford  to 
the  new  State  Capitol,  that  city.  The  occasion  was 
named  "Battle  Flag  Day."  An  observer,  writing  of  .the 
event,  remarks:  "There  was  a  great  military  display. 
The  survivors  of  the  war  regiments  were  the  lions  of  the 
day.  They  marched  in  the  line,  and  carried  their  old 
flags.  The  immense  throng  that  had  assembled  at  the 
State  House  applauded  as  the  old  regiments  marched  by. 
But  when  the  remnant  of  the  Old  Ninth  appeared  the 
air  was  rent  with  cheers.  The  regiment  halted ;  its  color- 
bearers  mounted  the  broad  steps  of  the  State  House,  and 
turning  waved  the  Ninth's  ragged,  stained  old  battle 
flags,  and  up  from  ten  thousand  throats  went  a  mighty 
cheer,  a  cheer  that  must  have  sent  the  blood  bounding 


2 1 2     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  IN  FA  NTR  Y. 

through  the  veins  of  the  veterans.  Among  the  guests 
upon  the  State  House  steps  who  witnessed  this  thrilling 
scene  was  a  Mr.  Minor.  A  few  years  before  the  war  he 
had  been  governor  of  Connecticut.  An  important  act  of 
his  administration  was  to  disarm  and  disband  the  Irish 
companies  of  the  state.  He  must  have  entertained 
strange  thoughts  as  he  beheld  the  enthusiasm  evoked  by 
this  gallant  Irish  regiment  twenty  odd  years  thereafter." 

In  Feb.,  1885,  an  interesting  event,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  survivors  of  the  Ninth,  took  place.  This  was  the 
return  of  a  captured  Confederate  battle  flag  to  the  surviv- 
ors of  the  Third  Mississippi  regiment. 

This  was  the  flag  that  had  been  captured  from  the  lat- 
ter, by  the  Ninth,  at  Pass  Christian,  April  4,  1862.  The 
war  had  been  over  for  twenty  years  and  the  animosities 
engendered  by  the  struggle  had,  in  a  great  measure, 
passed  away.  It  was  decided,  therefore,  by  the  Ninth's 
survivors,  to  return  the  colors  as  an  evidence  of  good  will 
and  a  reunited  country. 

All  these  years,  the  flag  had  been  in  the  custody  of  the 
State  of  Connecticut,  but  having  been  carelessly  put  away 
in  a  box  had  been  greatly  damaged.  The  silk — much  of  it 
— had  fallen  to  pieces,  only  a  remnant  of  the  flag  being 
left.  It  seemed  at  first,  almost  a  hopeless  task  to  attempt 
to  restore  it  to  any  sort  of  shape.  But  it  was  decided  to 
undertake  the  task. 

Early  in  February,  the  legislature  of  Connecticut  had 
unanimously  passed  a  resolution  permitting  the  return  of 
the  flag  to  the  Third  Mississippi.  It  was  originally  made 
for  the  latter  regiment  by  the  ladies  of  Pass  Christian. 
They  had  requested,  as  a  favor,  that  the  flag  be  returned 
to  them,  after  these  long  years,  and  the  request  was 
granted.  The  survivors  of  the  Ninth  asked  the  state 
authorities  of  Connecticut  to  repair  the  flag,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, so  that  it  would  be  in  condition  to  return.  But  this 
was  declined.  The  following  correspondence,  at  the 
time,  sheds  some  light  on  the  subject: 


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CHAIRMAN  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  CITIES  AND  BOR- 
OUGHS, HON.  FRANK  D.  JACKSON  OF  DERBY. 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  STATE  OF  CON- 
NECTICUT, HARTFORD,  Feb.  6,  1885. 

Col.  John  G.  Healy: 

Sir — At  a  meeting  of  ex-soldiers  of  the  assembly  it  was 
voted,  ''That  if  the  members  of  the  Ninth  Regiment  asso- 
ciation do  not  desire  to  contribute  money  to  repair  the 
flag  of  the  Third  Mississippi  regiment  the  ex-soldiers  of 
this  body  will  do  it." 

Our  object  in  taking  this  course  was,  that  it  was  estab- 
lishing a  precedent  that  would  take  from  the  state  treas- 
ury quite  a  sum  of  money,  if  we  voted  what  you  asked 
for.  If  you  will  write  me  at  once  about  what  you  think 
it  will  cost  we  will  call  the  ex-soldiers  together  and  make 
arrangements  to  furnish  the  money. 

Yours  with  respect, 

F.  D.  JACKSON. 

Col.  Healy  sent  the  following  reply : 

NEW  HAVEN,  Conn.,  Feb.  9,  1885. 
Hon.  F.  D.  Jackson: 

Dear  Sir — In  answer  to  your  favor  of  the  6th  inst,  we 
desire  to  say  that  while  we  appreciate  the  spirit  in  which 
our  comrades  in  the  general  assembly  tender  us  pecuni- 
ary aid  for  the  repairs  of  the  flag  of  the  Third  Missis- 
sippi regiment,  we  must  beg  leave  to  decline  it  in  the 
same  spirit  in  which  it  is  tendered. 

The  Ninth  Connecticut  is  not  a  pauper  regiment,  and  is 
not  in  need  of  charity.  Being  simply  ex-soldiers  and  not 
legislators,  we  can  hardly  be  expected  to  appreciate  the 
dangers  that  lurk  in  the  establishment  of  the  precedent 
that  your  honorable  body  so  much  dreads. 

We  remember  that  the  state  of  Connecticut  received  the 
flag  from  our  hands  in  perfect  condition.  We  know  that 
through  the  neglect  of  its  custodians  it  was  reduced  to 


2i4    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

rags.  In  our  ignorance,  we  believed  that  it  was  the  duty 
of  the  state  to  repair  and  restore  it.  As  soldiers,  we 
believed  that  such  action  would  be  honest,  graceful  and 
fitting.  *  *  * 

On  behalf  of  the  veterans  of  the  Ninth,  I  am  with 
respect, 

Your  Obedient  Servant, 

JOHN  G.  HEALY. 

The  veterans  of  the  Ninth,  accordingly,  restored  the 
flag  at  their  own  personal  expense.  Silk  was  procured, 
tassels  and  a  staff  provided,  and  appropriate  lettering 
done.  The  accompanying  illustration  shows  how  the 
flag  looked  when  repaired.  The  following  correspond- 
ence then  ensued :  

NEW  HAVEN,  CONN.,  Feb.  14,  1885. 

Hon.  Henry  B.  Harrison,  Governor  State  of  Connecticut: 

Governor:  I  have  the  honor,  on  behalf  of  the  Ninth 
Regimental  association,  to  inform  your  excellency  that 
the  flag  of  the  Third  Mississippi  has  been  repaired.  They 
will  not  soon  forget  your  kindly  offer,  which  they  have 
the  honor  most  respectfully  to  decline.  They  will 
remember  you  as  the  friend  of  the  boys  in  Blue,  and  as 
one  who  believes  that  the  boys  who  wore  the  Gray  and 
live  in  Dixie  are  ready  and  willing  to  protect  the  Stars 
and  Stripes. 

Again  thanking  you,  I  am,  Governor, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

JOHN  G.  HEALY. 

STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT, 

EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT, 

NEW  HAVEN,  Feb.  14,  1885. 

Colonel:  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt 
of  your  letter  of  this  date  informing  me  that  the  flag  of 
the  Third  Mississippi  regiment  has  been  repaired,  and 


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expressing  toward  myself  sentiments  which  are  highly 
appreciated.  I  share  in  your  belief  that  the  brave  men 
from  whom  the  flag  was  captured  would  be  ready  to  unite 
with  you  in  defending  the  Stars  and  Stripes  against  every 
foreign  foe,  and  I  trust  they  will  accept  the  restoration 
of  their  flag  as  a  proof  of  kindly  and  generous  feeling 
towards  them,  not  only  upon  the  part  of  yourself  and 
your  gallant  comrades  of  the  Ninth,  but  also*  upon  the 
part  of  all  the  soldiers  of  Connecticut  who,  in  days  now 
happily  receding  into  the  past,  were  arrayed  in  arms 
against  them. 

Very  respectfully, 

HENRY  B.  HARRISON. 

COL.  JOHN  G.  HEALY, 
President  of  the  Ninth  Regiment  Association. 


The  occasion  selected  for  the  restoration  of  the  flag, 
to  the  representatives  of  the  Third  Mississippi,  was  "Con- 
necticut day,"  at  the  World's  Industrial  and  Cotton  Cen- 
tennial Exposition,  New  Orleans,  La.,  Feb.  26,  1885. 
The  delegation  having  charge  of  the  flag  on  its  progress 
from  New  Haven  to  New  Orleans  comprised  Col.  John 
G.  Healy,  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien  and  Corporal  M.  P. 
Coen,  formerly  officers  of  the  Ninth ;  also  Mr.  James 
Reynolds,  town  agent  of  New  Haven,  and  Mr.  Geo.  A. 
Stevens,  sheriff  of  New  Haven  county. 

Each  member  of  the  delegation  wore  a  light  blue  badge 
inscribed  as  follows : 


THIRD  MISSISSIPPI. 
(Seal  of  Mississippi.) 

NINTH  CONNECTICUT. 
(Seal  of  Connecticut.) 

NEW  ORLEANS,  February  26,  1885. 


216    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Each  veteran  of  the  Southern  regiment  was  presented 
one  of  these  badges  as  a  souvenir  of  the  occasion  of  their 
first  meeting  after  the  war. 

At  New  Orleans  the  delegation  was  met  by  Captain 
William  Wright,  Lieutenant  Joseph  H.  Lawler  and  Lieu- 
tenant Michael  Kennedy,  veterans  of  the  Ninth. 

The  following  letter  had  previously  been  received  by 
Col.  Healy:  WILLARD'S  HOTEL. 

WASHINGTON,  D.  C,  February  n,  1885. 
Colonel  John  G.  Healy: 

DEAR  SIR — Your  letter  of  January  29  was  forwarded 
to  me  from  New  Orleans.  I  am  here  as  one  of  the  com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  State  and  Territorial  Commis- 
sioners to  wait  upon  Congress,  but  expect  to  be  in  New 
Orleans  before  the  date  of  your  arrival.  In  the  mean- 
time, let  me  heartily  thank  you  in  behalf  of  my  people 
and  particularly  the  old  soldiers  whose  fortunes  I  shared 
from  first  to  last,  for  the  noble  sentiments  that  have 
prompted  your  words  and  actions  in  connection  with  the 

flaS-  Yours  truly, 

S.  A.  JONAS, 
Commissioner  from  Mississippi. 

In  connection  with  the  visit  of  the  delegation  from 
Connecticut,  the  following  advertisements,  addressed  to 
the  ''Veterans  (Confederate)  of  the  Army  of  Northern 
Virginia"  appeared  in  the  New  Orleans  papers : 

Yeterans  A.  N.  Ya.,  La.  Div.,  B.  A.,  Headquar- 
ters, No.  12  Exchange  Alley,  New  Orleans,  Feb.  24, 
1885. — The  officers  and  members  of  this  association  will 
attend  a  special  meeting  at  these  headquarters  on 
WEDNESDAY,  Feb.  25,  at  8  o'clock,  P.  M.,  for  the 
purpose  of  extending  courtesies  to  the  delegation  from 
the  Qth  Connecticut  Volunteers  (veterans),  now  visiting 
our  city. 

By  order  of  the  President : 

FRED  A.  OBER,  Rec.  Sec'y. 


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Army  of  Northern  Tirginia  (Yeterans)  Benevo- 
lent Association,  Louisiana  Division,  headquarters 
12  Exchange  Alley,  up  stairs — New  Orleans,  Feb.  13, 
1885 — P.  O.  Box  1695. — The  headquarters  Army  of 
Northern  Virginia  will  be  open  daily,  from  I  P.  M.  to  9 
P.  M.,  during  the  Carnival  period  for  comrades  and 
friends  visiting  the  city. 

By  the  Executive  Committee  : 

FRED  A.  OBER, 

Recording  Secretary. 

The  New  Orleans  Times-Democrat,  Feb.  26,  1885,  states 
that 

The  Army  of  Northern  Virginia  tendered  a  reception 
to  the  committee  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Regiment, 
who  are  here  for  the  purpose  of  returning  a  flag  to  the 
Third  Mississippi  Regiment.  These  colors  were  cap- 
tured in  the  early  part  of  the  late  war  by  them  from  the 
Third  Regiment  in  a  charge  on  their  camp  near  Pass 
Christian,  Miss. 

They  were  escorted  last  evening  from  their  headquar- 
ters, No.  76  St.  Charles  street,  to  the  hall  of  the  A.  N.  V., 
where  a  large  number  of  old  veterans  awaited  their 
arrival.  After  a  most  cordial  reception  a  large  punch- 
bowl was  emptied,  and  nearly  all  present  indulged  in 
some  happy  allusion  to  the  fraternal  feeling  which  now 
existed  between  the  soldiers  of  the  North  and  South. 
Col.  Healy,  chairman  of  the  Ninth  Regiment  committee, 
spoke  most  feelingly  on  the  subject,  and  recited  the  his- 
tory of  his  regiment  in  the  Southwest.  Capt.  O'Brien 
also  spoke  of  his  service  in  the  South.  He  was  the  pro- 
vost marshal  in  St.  James  parish  for  a  long  time,  and 
made  many  warm  friends,  who  have  retained  their  friend- 
ship for  him  all  these  years. 

Corporal  Coen,  responding  to  a  call,  said  that  he 
intended  to  go  back  to  his  people  and  tell  them  how  the 
committee  was  received  by  the  old  soldiers  who  fought 
against  them.  He  said,  although  he  had  lost  his  father 
and  a  brother  in  the  late  war,  he  had  no  feelings  against 
the  Southern  boys.  The  war  was  over,  and  with  it 
should  be  swept  out  all  bitterness,  and  we  should  be 
friends  again. 


2i8    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Col.  Fenton,  from  Connecticut,  being  present,  also 
delivered  a  most  feeling  address,  in  which  he  alluded  to 
the  many  acts  of  kindness  received  from  the  people  of 
this  state. 

L.  H.  Yeargan,  from  North  Carolina,  was  called  upon, 
and  in  response  he  claimed  that  to  speak  of  battles  and 
sieges  before  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia  was  to  gild 
refined  gold,  paint  the  lily,  or  add  perfume  to  the  rose ; 
therefore  he  would  conform  to  the  spirit  of  the  occasion, 
and  that  was  that  every  Union  soldier  held  an  equal 
admiration  with  himself  for  the  Leonidas  of  this  era, 
Stonewall  Jackson. 

The  meeting  of  these  old  soldiers  last  night  awakened 
the  memories  of  many  incidents  of  the  war  which  had 
almost  faded  from  the  mind.  Reunions  of  this  kind  do 
much  to  foster  the  good  feeling  which  is  growing 
stronger  and  stronger  every  day  between  the  two  sec- 
tions. To-day  the  presentation  of  the  flag  will  take  place 
in  the  Music  Hall  of  the  Exposition,  between  the  hours 
of  i  and  2  p.  m.  *  *  * 

All  members  of  the  Veteran  Association  are  invited  to 
attend,  their  badges  being  their  passes  through  the  gates 
of  the  Exposition.  After  the  ceremony  the  committee 
will  partake  of  the  hospitalities  of  a  number  of  old  sol- 
diers, who  have  provided  a  dinner  for  them  at  the  head- 
quarters of  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia.  They  leave 
for  home  on  Friday. 

The  New  Orleans  Sunday  States,  in  its  issue  of  Feb. 
22,  1885,  stated  that: 

Col.  John  G.  Healy,  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien  and  Cor- 
poral M.  P.  Coen,  *  *  *  *  ,  representing  the  Ninth 
Connecticut  Regiment,  arrived  here  over  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral yesterday  and  have  taken  quarters  at  No.  76  St. 
Charles  street,  where  they  will  be  glad  to  meet  and 
receive  their  friends.  As  representatives  of  the  Ninth 
Connecticut,  these  gentlemen  will  on  Thursday  the  26th 
inst.,  at  the  Exposition  grounds,  return  to  the  survivors 
of  the  Third  Mississippi  Confederate  Regiment,  the  tat- 
tered remnants  of  the  glorious  old  flag  which  led  them  to 
battle  in  the  late  war.  It  will  be  a  most  pleasant  event 
and  one  fraught  with  many  interesting  and  important 
historical  reminiscences.  This  flag  was  captured  at  Pass 
Christian  in  April,  1862,  by  the  Federal  regiment  whose 
representatives  now  so  generously  donate  it  back  to  those 
who  know  and  appreciate  it  best. 


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Col.  Healy  and  his  party  left  New  Haven  on  Monday 
last  accompanied  by  Mr.  James  Reynolds,  a  prominent 
official  of  that  city,  who  will  return  with  them  from  this 
city.  They  will  remain  here  until  Friday,  and  leaving, 
go  by  way  of  Washington,  D.  C.,  where  they  will  attend 
the  inaugural  ceremonies  of  President-elect  Cleveland. 
Last  evening  they  were  the  recipients  of  many  distin- 
guished callers,  among  whom  were  Gen.  Wm.  Wright 
and  Major  Jos.  H.  Lawler,  members  of  the  old  Connecti- 
cut regiment. 

The  majority  of  our  old  citizens  still  remember  the  old 
Connecticut  regiment.  It  was  stationed  in  and  about 
New  Orleans  for  fifteen  months  during  the  war,  doing 
provost  duty.  Headquarters  were  on  Lafayette  square. 
At  that  time  Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill  was  the  commander, 
and  for  several  months  was  military  commandant  of  this 
city.  John  G.  Healy,  late  commander,  was  a  captain 
and  stationed  at  Lake  End  for  fully  eight  months,  being 
in  charge  of  that  post.  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien  was 
provost  marshal  of  St.  James  parish  for  more  than  a  year, 
and  Corp.  Coen  was  stationed  at  the  Lake,  with  Col. 
Healy. 

These  gentlemen,  as  they  appear  now,  are  all  in  excel- 
lent health,  the  best  of  spirits,  and  enjoy  the  reputation 
of  being  prosperous  business  men  in  the  community  in 
which  they  live. 

Referring  to  the  old  flag,  etc.,  Col.  Healy  said:  "Gov. 
Henry  B.  Harrison.,  of  our  State,  was  very  much  in  sym- 
pathy with  the  movement  on  our  part  to  return  the  old 
flag,  and  seemed  desirous  to  do  everything  in  his  power 
to  accomplish  the  scheme  as  proposed  by  the  survivors 
of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Regiment/' 


CHAPTER  XV. 

THE  EXERCISES  IN  NEW  ORLEANS  ON  THE  RETURN  OF  THE 

CAPTURED      FLAG A      DISTINGUISHED      ASSEMBLAGE 

PARTICIPATES THE  PROGRAMME     ONE    OF    UNUSUAL 

INTEREST VETERANS   OF   BOTH   ARMIES   FRATERNIZE 

AND        EXCHANGE        PATRIOTIC        SENTIMENTS CAPT. 

DANIEL  CURRAN  OF  THE  THIRD  MISSISSIPPI  RECEIVES 

THE  COLORS ELOQUENT  ADDRESSES  ARE  DELIVERED 

ON  THE  OCCASION. 

THE  day  of  the  presentation  finally  arrived,  and  the 
exercises  were  thus  described  by  the  New  Haven 
Morning  News,  Feb.  27 :  "The  event  of  yesterday  at  the 
New  Orleans  exposition  was  the  celebration  of  Connecti- 
cut day  and  the  formal  restoration  to  the  original  owners 
of  the  tattered  battle  flag  captured  by  the  Ninth  Connecti- 
cut regiment  at  Pass  Christian,  Miss.,  in  1862.  The 
colors  up  to  the  present  time  have  been  at  the  Capitol  at 
Hartford,  but  both  branches  of  the  legislature  sanctioned 
their  return  to  the  Ex-Confederates. 

''Connecticut  visitors  are  many  at  the  great  southern 
exhibition,  and  they  were  out  in  force.  Long  before  the 
hour  for  the  presentation,  the  streets  were  lined  with  peo- 
ple hurrying  to  see  the  sight.  The  guard  of  honor,  which 
had  accompanied  the  flag  from  New  Haven,  had  been 
considerably  increased  in  numbers  since  it  left  Chicago, 
and  on  its  arrival  in  New  Orleans  had  been  treated  with 
distinguished  courtesy  by  the  managers  of  the  exhibition 
and  the  survivors  of  the  regiment  from  which  the  flag 
had  been  captured  23  years  before.  Public  interest  in  the 
presentation  had  been  increased  by  the  action  of  the  press, 
which  had  devoted  much  space  to  the  story  of  the  flag's 
adventures. 

''The  ceremonies  were  held  in  Music  hall,  an  enormous 
building,  which  was  elaborately  decorated  for  the  occa- 
sion. On  the  raised  and  handsomely  ornamented  plat- 


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form  were  all  the  United  States  and  state  commissioners 
to  the  exhibition,  lady  commissioners,  a  large  number  of 
representatives  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  the 
Army  of  Northern  Virginia  and  the  Army  of  Tennessee, 
the  Ninth  Connecticut  veterans  and  a  host  of  Federals 
and  ex-Confederates  of  prominence.  The  best  of  feeling 
prevailed  and  it  was  evident  that  the  return  of  the  flag 
was  deeply  appreciated  by  the  men  who  had  worn  the 
gray.  As  the  old  soldiers  took  their  seats  on  the  plat- 
form the  vast  audience  which  filled  the  hall  cheered  re- 
peatedly, and  when  the  speech  of  presentation  was  made 
the  applause  was  deafening. 

"The  ceremonies  were  opened  by  Acting  Commis- 
sioner of  Connecticut  T.  R.  Pickering,  who  introduced 
Col.  John  G.  Healy,  of  the  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut 
Volunteers.  Colonel  Healy  in  an  eloquent  address  trans- 
ferred the  flag  to  Capt.  Curran,  of  the  Third  Mississippi. 
He  dwelt  briefly  on  the  events  which  led  to  the  capture 
of  the  flag  and  of  the  circumstances  which  brought 
about  its  return.  Acting  as  the  spokesman  of  his  regi- 
ment he  returned  the  banner  to  its  former  owners  with 
the  best  wishes  of  his  comrades.  He  trusted,  he  said, 
that  this  would  be  but  one  of  many  similar  restorations 
on  both  sides  and  would  be  at  once  a  token  of  the  good 
feeling  which  now  exists  and  a  means  of  bringing  the 
two  sections  of  the  country  into  still  closer  relations. 
The  chaplain  of  the  Third  Mississippi,  the  Rev.  Thomas 
R.  Markham,  delivered  an  address  of  acceptance.  He  was 
followed  in  a  speech  by  the  Hon.  J.  R.  G.  Pitkin,  of 
Louisiana." 

The  New  Orleans  Times-Democrat,  Feb.  27,  had  the 
following  report  of  the  affair : 

CONNECTICUT  DAY. 

THE  OLD  FLAG  OF  THE  THIRD   MISSISSIPPI   RETURNED  BY 
ITS   CAPTORS. 

A  beautiful  day,  with  the  largest  attendance  of  the 
week.  All  through  the  day  the  grounds  were  bathed  in 


222     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

bright,  warm  sunshine,  and  the  sweet  Southern  air  was 
fanned  by  a  gentle  breese,  wafted  up  from  the  broad,  deep 
waters  of  the  majestic  Mississippi.  A  day  of  surpassing 
beauty  it  seemed  to  the  thousands  of  Northern  visitors 
on  the  grounds,  who  gazed  in  wondering  admiration,  not 
less  upon  the  glory  of  the  heavens  above  them  than  upon 
the  splendors  of  the  grounds  around  them ;  splendors 
that  increase  day  by  day  as  the  exquisite  floral  mantle 
of  the  great  park  approaches  maturity. 

Such  a  day  rendered  complete  the  beauty  and  bril- 
liancy of  the  scene  that  was  being  enacted  in  the  Main 
Building.  It  was  Connecticut  day,  and  the  hundreds  of 
visitors  here  from  that  most  famous  of  all  the  famous  old 
New  England  States  determined  that  the  day  set  apart 
for  the  celebration  of  the  Nutmeg  State  should  not  lack 
in  interest.  And  it  did  not,  for  it  witnessed  one  of  the 
most  interesting  and  pleasing  events  that  have  yet  oc- 
curred at  the  Exposition.  It  was  a  day  that  forged  one 
more  of  those  innumerable  links  that  bind  the  North  and 
South  indissolubly  together,  a  day  to  linger  long  in  the 
memory  of  many  thousands  of  people,  a  day  to  be  re- 
membered by  historians  in  the  future. 

This  event  was  the  formal  restoration  to  its  original 
owners  of  a  tattered  battle  flag  captured  by  the  Ninth 
Connecticut  Regiment  from  the  Third  Mississippi  Regi- 
ment at  Pass  Christian  in  1862.  The  captured  colors 
have  rested  until  now  in  the  State  Capitol  at  Hartford, 
Conn.,  but  both  branches  of  the  Legislature  of  that  State 
having  cordially  sanctioned  their  return  to  the  old  owners 
of  the  flag,  they  were  brought  here  and  gave  rise  to  the 
brilliant  ceremonies  of  yesterday,  in  token  of  the  mutual 
willingness  of  the  people  of  both  States,  and  of  all  the 
States,  to  utterly  obliterate  the  memory  of  past  disputes. 

The  exercises  commenced  in  the  Music  Hall  at  2 
o'clock,  but  long  ere  the  hour  arrived  the  vast  hall  was 
rilled  to  overflowing  by  an  immense  audience.  When  the 
Mexican  Band  arrived  and  took  up  its  station  on  the 


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platform,  a  loud  burst  of  applause  went  up  from  the  great 
gathering,  which  knew  the  oft  proved  excellence  of  the 
musicians  about  to  entertain  them. 

On  the  platform  were  nearly  all  the  United  States  and 
States  commissioners  in  town,  a  large  number  of  lady 
commissioners,  several  ladies  of  the  city,  and  also  many 
representatives  of  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  the 
Army  of  Tennessee  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 


On  the  front  of  the  platform  stood  a  table  draped  with 
the  Stars  and  Stripes.  In  front  were  suspended  the  two 
guidons  of  Mississippi  and  Connecticut,  and  on  the 
table  were  a  bronze  equestrian  statue  of  Gen.  Robert  E. 
Lee,  a  statue  of  a  national  standard  bearer,  and  a  bronze 
medallion  of  Gen.  Washington.  All  these  bronzes  were 
made  by  the  Ames  Manufacturing  Company  of  Chicopee, 
Mass.,  and  belong  to  the  Bay  State  exhibit,  having  been 
loaned  to  Connecticut  for  this  occasion. 

Several  appropriate  selections  were  rendered  by  the 
Mexican  Band,  and  the  exercises  were  then  opened  by 
Acting  Commissioner  T.  R.  Pickering,  of  Connecticut, 
who  presided.  He  remarked :  "The  object  of  this  meet- 
ing has  been  so  well  portrayed,  by  the  press  and  other- 
wise, that  I  will  not  detain  you  by  any  remarks,  but  at 
once  introduce  to  you  Col.  John  G.  Healy,  of  the  Ninth 
Connecticut  Volunteers." 

Amid  the  applause  of  the  audience  Col.  Healy  stepped 
to  the  front.  He  said : 

Boys  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut,  of  the  Third  Missis- 
sippi, and  my  friends :  Twenty-three  years  ago  the  Ninth 
Connecticut  Regiment,  and  a  section  of  the  Sixth 
Massachusetts  battery  visited  Pass  Christian,  Miss. 
Twenty-three  years  ago  you  were  the  boys  in  gray,  and 
we  were  the  boys  in  blue.  The  war  is  over.  The  fires 
of  the  bivouac  have  been  extinguished.  May  they  never 
again  be  lighted,  unless  a  foreign  foe  should  interfere 
with  this  united  country.  [Applause.]  There  seem  to 


224    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

be  but  few  of  your  boys  left.  There  are  fewer  of  mine. 
In  a  few  years  we  will  have  passed  away.  There  are  none 
to  take  our  places.  Our  ranks  cannot  be  filled.  In  a 
few  years  we  will  have  joined  the  army  above,  and  before 
we  go,  before  we  answer  the  last  roll-call,  let  us  shake 
hands,  and  remember  that  though  we  have  fought  on 
different  sides  in  the  same  field,  we  are  all  citizens  of  a 
common  and  a  united  country. 

The  speaker  here  advanced  a  step  and  took  the  ex- 
tended hand  of  Col.  Dyer,  of  the  Third  Mississippi.  They 
shook  hands  cordially  amid  hearty  cheers,  and  Col.  Healy 
concluded  his  remarks  as  follows: 

If  in  the  restoration  of  this  flag  your  thoughts  go  back 
to  the  days  when  you  received  it  from  the  fair  hands  that 
made  it,  and  the  remembrance  of  those  days  makes  you 
happy,  then  you  certainly  give  happiness  to  the  boys  of 
Connecticut,  who  carried  the  harp  and  the  shamrock. 

Then,  while  the  immense  audience  sent  up  a  continu- 
ous cheer,  and  the  Mexican  Band  rendered  the  stirring 
strains  of  the  national  air,  the  old  flag,  that  had  been 
twenty-three  years  in  captivity,  passed  from  the  hands  of 
Col.  Healy  into  those  of  Capt.  Curran,  of  the  Third  Mis- 
sissippi. *  *  *  Capt.  Curran  received  the  flag  with 
the  following  remarks : 

In  behalf  of  the  surviving  members  of  our  command, 
as  captain  of  the  Dahlgren  Guards,  of  Pass  Christian., 
Miss.,  it  is  with  sincere  pleasure  that  I  receive  the  flag 
captured  by  you  from  them  at  Pass  Christian  on  April  4, 
1862.  We  were  then  Company  H,  of  the  Third  Missis- 
sippi, performing  guard  service  along  the  unprotected 
Gulf  coast  of  our  State.  Afterwards  we  became  attached 
to  Featherstone's  Brigade,  in  Loring's  Division  of  the 
Army  of  Tennessee,  and  as  such  served  through  the  war, 
laying  down  our  arms  under  Gen.  Joe  Johnston  in  North 
Carolina. 

This  day,  sir,  recalls  another  day  and  another  presenta- 
tion. It  was  a  proud  day  for  us,  when  full  of  patriotic 
ardor,  we  first  received  this  flag,  the  work  and  gift  of 
the  fair  hands  of  the  ladies  of  the  Pass,  our  kindred, 


CAPT.  JAS.  HENNESSY. 


RETURN   OF   THE    CAPTURED    FLAG   OF  THE   THIRD    MISSISSIPPI, 
AT  NEW   ORLEANS,    LA.,    1885. 


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friends  and  neighbors.  It  spoke  to  us  then  and  it  speaks 
to  us  now  of  the  spirit  of  our  people  and  the  courage  of 
our  soldiers.  In  returning  it,  you  show  a  spirit  which 
does  you  honor,  and  to  which  we  heartily  respond.  Brave 
men  respect  the  brave  and,  the  war  over,  are  ready  to 
pursue  the  paths  of  peace. 

In  this  return  you  show  that  you  recognize  our  deeds 
in  the  past,  and  we  accept  it  as  a  symbol  of  peace  and 
good-will  in  the  future.  We  fought  you,  as  you  know, 
long  and  well.  You  gained  the  day.  We  accept  the 
issue  and  welcome  you  as  citizens  of  a  common  country. 
And  now,  sir,  I  turn  to  the  chaplain  of  our  brigade,  who 
knows  how  to  speak,  and  who  shared  with  us  the  fatigues 
of  the  march  and  the  dangers  of  the  field,  and  will  ask 
him  to  give  fit  expression  to  the  feelings  that  to-day  move 
our  hearts. 

The  flag  was  then  by  Capt.  Curran  placed  in  the  hands 
of  Mrs.  M.  D.  Leonard,  of  Port  Gibson,  Miss.,  and  Miss 
Maggie  Kidd,  of  Aberdeen,  Miss.,  who  will  act  as  its  cus- 
todians in  the  Mississippi  department  of  the  Government 
Building.  An  eloquent  speech  was  then  delivered  by  the 
Rev.  Thomas  R.  Markham,  chaplain  of  the  Third  Missis- 
sippi. 

He  mentioned  the  pleasure  it  gave  him  to  express  the 
sentiments  of  the  Third  Mississippi,  upon  receiving  their 
old  flag  back  from  the  hands  of  its  captors.  It  was  espe- 
cially pleasing  to  him,  because  he  was  a  Mississippian 
born  and  bred,  and  he  spoke  for  his  State  and  for  his 
comrades.  He  appreciated  to  the  full  the  spirit  of  mag- 
nanimity shown  by  the  people  and  the  legislature  of 
Connecticut,  and  the  knightly  courtesy  that  had  induced 
these  gentlemen  from  Connecticut  who  were  gathered  on 
the  platform  to  undertake  in  this  wintry  season,  a  long 
journey  for  the  sake  of  returning  to  the  Third  Mississippi 
a  token  that  would  henceforth  be  as  well  an  emblem  of 
the  peace  that  is,  as  of  the  war  that  was.  [Applause.] 

The  present  was  the  most  suitable  time  that  could  have 
been  selected  for  such  an  event  as  had  just  occurred,  "for," 
said  the  speaker,  "last  Sabbath  was  to  the  people  of  this 
country  a  day  of  days.  It  was  the  day  that  commem- 
orated the  birth  of  our  first  man.  The  national  authorities 
of  this  land  acted  as  became  the  representatives  of  a  Sab- 

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226    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

bath-keeping  people,  recognizing  the  sanctity  of  a  day 
devoted  to  one  infinitely  greater  than  George  Washing- 
ton. One  day  in  advance,  the  Saturday  preceding,  com- 
memorated both  the  birth  of  Washington  and  the  com- 
pletion of  that  monument  rising  upright  in  its  sky- 
piercing  height,  higher  than  any  ever  before  erected  by 
man. 

They  met  together  to  recall  him  and  his  days,  and  was 
it  not  symbolic,  sirs,  that  on  that  day  there  were  in  the 
ranks  of  that  monumental  procession  first,  your  Gen. 
Ayers,  and  second  our  Gen.  Fitz  Hugh  Lee,  and  that  side 
by  side  were  Edmunds,  of  New  Hampshire,  and  Carlisle, 
of  Kentucky :  Winthrop,  of  Massachusetts,  and  Daniel,  of 
Virginia?  The  object  of  one  and  all  was  to  contribute 
their  respect  to  the  memory  of  that  man  who  had  been 
pronounced  first  in  war,  first  in  peace  and  first  in  the 
hearts  of  his  countrymen — the  greatest  of  good  men,  the 
first  of  best  men."  The  speaker  recalled  reminiscences 
of  the  war,  showing  the  bravery  that  had  been  evidenced 
on  both  sides,  and  ended  by  quoting  the  words  of  the 
immortal  Webster,  that  the  union  of  these  States  shall 
exist  forever,  and  that  liberty  and  union  shall  be  one  and 
inseparable  now  and  for  evermore. 

Major  Geo.  Gowan,  representing  the  ladies'  department 
of  the  state  of  Mississippi,  next  spoke  as  follows : 

No  words  of  mine  can  express  the  emotions  which 
swell  my  heart  and  the  hearts  of  all  Confederate  soldiers 
on  this  occasion,  nor  language  give  utterance  to  the  min- 
gled joy  and  sadness  which  possess  me  as  my  eyes  turn 
once  again  on  these  familiar  colors. 

This  flag  was  mere  bunting  once — common  merchan- 
dise on  the  merchant's  shelf.  Patriotic  hands  and  patri- 
otic hearts  made  it  an  emblem  of  Southern  pride  and 
Southern  chivalry.  It  became  the  flag  under  which  the 
Third  Mississippi  Regiment  went  out  to>  battle : 

'  The  hopes,  the  fears,  the  prayers,  the  tears, 
The  hopes  triumphant  o'er  the  fears" 

of  loved  ones  followed  it.  The  sons  of  Mississippi  rallied 
round  it,  to  follow  where  it  should  go,  to  do  and  die 
in  its  defense.  Thus  going  forth,  its  mission  was  to  stir 
the  hearts  and  nerve  the  hands  of  Southern  soldiers,  and 


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to  find  its  place  amid  the  scenes  of  carnage  to  which  its 
presence  would  be  an  incitement.  Grand  flag  it  was  then 
— the  flag  of  the  brave.  How  few  survive  who  knew  it 
in  the  pomp  and  circumstance  of  its  early  days. 

A  change  came.  In  the  fierce  struggle  its  defenders 
went  down.  The  fortune  of  war  transferred  it  to  enemies' 
hands.  It  was  borne  away  from  Southern  soil,  away 
from  those  who  loved  it,  away  from  its  baptism  of  fire 
and  blood,  to  be  a  trophy  of  victory  in  the  hands  of  foe- 
men.  Far  from  the  land  of  the  magnolia  and  the  orange 
it  found  its  new  home.  For  twenty  long  years  it  has 
remained  in  its  banishment.  There  it  has  borne  witness 
to  the  valor  of  its  captor.  There  it  has  told  of  a  South 
land  humiliated,  down  trodden  and  left  desolate. 

But  another  change  comes.  Once  more  that  old  flag 
is  under  a  Southern  sun,  and  once  more  Southern  hearts 
beat  around  it.  Once  it  was  an  emblem  of  the  high  hopes 
and  the  grand  enthusiasm  with  which  the  young  men  of 
Mississippi  rushed  to  battle  for  their  much  beloved  state. 
Once  again,  it  was  an  emblem  in  the  hands  of  victorious 
sons  of  Connecticut,  to  tell  how  nobly  they  have  per- 
formed the  task  which  Connecticut  assigned  to  them. 

Now  once  again  it  is  an  emblem.  Sons  of  Connecti- 
cut and  sons  of  Mississippi  are  once  more  around  it.  It 
went  down  in  its  beauty  and  its  pride  amid  scenes  of  fra- 
tricidal strife.  With  its  stains  and  its  battle  scars  it  went 
among  strangers,  and  has  been  treasured  as  a  trophy  won 
by  brave  men  in  fight.  With  its  stains  and  battle  scars  it 
is  here  to-day.  It  does  not  look  upon  fields  of  blood. 
It  does  not  lead  and  inspire  to  deeds  of  daring  and  death. 
It  is  an  emblem  now  of  peace  restored,  reconstruction 
complete,  brotherhood  re-established.  It  is  an  emblem 
now  of  mutual  interest  and  mutual  affection  between  the 
states  of  Connecticut  and  Mississippi.  It  is  an  emblem 
of  a  Union  cemented  afresh  by  Northern  and  Southern 
blood,  a  Union  to  endure  forever. 

We  welcome  the  old  flag  for  what  it  has  been,  and  for 
what  it  is.  We  welcome  our  Connecticut  brothers,  who 
bring  it  as  a  token  of  kind  feeling  and  reconciliation. 
Dear  old  flag!  dear  in  the  memories  that  cluster  around 
it ;  dear  in  the  association  of  which  it  reminds  us ;  dearest 
of  all  in  its  present  mission  of  love.  Now  it  tells  us  that 
the  struggle  was  not  in  vain ;  now  it  tells  us  that  the  rich 
blood  of  North  and  South  that  mingled  upon  our  battle- 


228     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTR  Y. 

fields  was  not  wasted,  but  has  been  the  seed  of  a  new 
nation  which  shall  know  no  North,  no  South,  because 
their  blood  has  been  so  blended.  We  thank  you,  men  of 
Connecticut,  from  our  hearts  we  thank  you  for  this  con- 
summation. We  thank  you  that  we  see  this  old  flag  once 
more.  Come,  let  us  join  hands  around  it,  and  take  up 
the  old  anthem : 

"Liberty  and  union,  now  and  forever,  one  and  insepa- 
rable." 

HON.   P.   C  LOUNSBURY. 

Hon.  Phineas  C.  Lounsbury,  of  Connecticut,  then  de- 
livered the  following  address : 

It  is  an  unexpected  privilege  that  has  come  to  me  at 
the  eleventh  hour,  to  speak  on  this  occasion  in  behalf  and 
for  Connecticut,  my  native  state.  It  affords  me  the  great- 
est pleasure  to  be  able  to  speak  words  of  friendship,  love 
and  truth — breathing  the  same  spirit  of  cordial  fraternity 
that  greets  us  from  the  North,  as  we  join  hands  far  across 
that  forever  closed-up  chasm  with  our  brethren  at  the 
South — a  chasm  that  once  threatened  to  divide  this  great 
American  Republic,  which  is  now  the  pride  alike  of  every 
American  heart,  whether  in  the  North,  the  South,  the 
East,  or  the  West. 

In  the  formation  of  this  great  republic  the  state  that 
is  honored  to-day  performed  well  its  part.  How  in- 
stinctively our  thoughts  go  back,  and  with  laudable  pride, 
to  the  days  of  our  forefathers,  those  noble  men  of  God ; 
men  who,  obedient  to  conscience,  severed  the  dearest  ties 
of  country  and  of  kindred,  braved  the  perils  of  the  ocean, 
and  the  worse  perils  of  an  inhospitable  shore  and  an  in- 
clement clime  to  enjoy  the  rights  of  civil  and  religious 
liberty,  to  worship  God  according  to  the  dictates  of  their 
own  consciences,  and  when  these  dearly  bought  rights 
were  imperiled  by  the  despotism  of  the  mother  country, 
dared  to  raise  the  standard  of  independence  and  defy  the 
powers  of  royalty  and  through  long  years  of  deprivation, 
peril  and  blood  triumphantly  vindicated  and  established 
that  independence ;  men  who,  obedient  to  personal  con- 
victions, and  for  the  achievement  or  in  defence  of  civil 
and  religious  right,  voluntarily  exchanged  the  peaceful 
implements  of  industry  for  the  cruel  weapons  of  war. 

To-day,  as  ever,  we  honor  these  manliest  of  men ;  we 
honor  them  for  that  spirit  of  liberty  and  their  love  of  right 


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which  so  possessed  their  souls  that  it  strengthened  them 
to  endure  hardships  and  privations  for  years,  in  order  that 
they  and  we,  their  posterity,  might  enjoy  individual  rights 
and  constitutional  liberties,  and  unto  God  do  we  ever 
render  thanksgiving  and  praise  for  His  guiding  hand, 
leading  them  on  through  many  a  dark  and  dreary  season 
in  the  righteousness  of  their  cause,  from  a  self-declared 
independence  to  one  owned  and  acknowledged  by  the 
nations  of  the  earth.  No  longer  subjected  to  the  man- 
dates of  the  king  of  the  isle  across  the  sea,  they  became 
free  to  form  a  government  that  was  destined  to  become 
grander  and  more  glorious  than  they  ever  conceived — 
whose  arches  should  span  the  continent  from  ocean  to 
ocean  and  from  the  lakes  to  the  Gulf,  and  beneath  the 
dome  of  whose  vast  temple  of  liberty  the  oppressed  of  all 
nations  might  find  a  welcome  and  a  home.  *  *  * 

While  we  can  never  forget  the  heroes  of  revolutionary 
fame,  may  we  not  come  down  a  little  later  and  remember 
the  heroes  of  1812,  who  so  gallantly  and  gloriously  pre- 
served and  maintained  all  those  institutions  of  justice  and 
the  rights  bequeathed  them  by  their  fathers?  That  was 
a  conflict  in  which  the  then  infant  state  of  Louisana 
immortalized  herself,  and  in  which  the  beautiful  city  of 
New  Orleans  made  herself  forever  known  to  fame,  by 
that  victory,  so  signal,  so  complete — at  that  battle  that 
bears  her  name — that  the  British  lion  has  never  dared  to 
put  foot  on,  or  claim,  one  acre  of  Uncle  Sam's  domains. 

We  of  Connecticut  honor  the  heroes  of  New  Orleans. 
We  honor  the  chieftain  who  won  fair  laurels  that  shall 
ever  encircle  his  noble  brow.  We  honor  those  brave  men 
who  on  that  battlefield  builded  a  tower  of  fame  reaching 
to  the  very  heavens,  around  which  has  gathered  a  halo 
of  glory  outshining  the  brightness  of  the  meridian  day. 
We  honor  the  city  of  New  Orleans,  which  has  honored 
the  loyalty  and  bravery  of  Gen.  Andrew  Jackson  by  a 
square  that  bears  a  monument  that  glorifies  his  name. 

We  honor  the  spirit  that  caused  those  prophetic  words 
of  his  to  be  inscribed  in  letters  of  granite,  those  words 
that  have  long  been  indelibly  written  on  the  tablet  of  every 
loyal  heart,  ''The  Union  must  and  shall  be  preserved." 
I  said  those  words  of  Andrew  Jackson  were  prophetic 
words.  They  have  again  and  again  been  verified  in  the 
history  of  the  nation.  England  tested  the  strength  of 
our  Union,  and,  to  her  sorrow,  proved  its  power. 


230    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

You  at  the  South  had  a  long,  strong  pull  and  a  pull 
all  together,  and  it  would  not  break ;  and  it  never  will 
break,  for  it  was  welded,  not  in  the  sunlight  of  prosperity, 
but  in  the  fire  of  battle.  There  were  honest  differences 
of  opinion  at  the  North  and  in  the  South,  but  they  never- 
theless did  lead  to  dissensions  that  culminated  in  war; 
but  in  that  war  they  were  finally  and  forever  settled,  and 
the  crowning  glory  is  the  happy  issue  in  which  you  to-day 
at  the  South  rejoice  alike  with  us  at  the  North  in  an 
undivided  nation  that  is  rapidly  becoming  an  undivided 
people,  for  we  to-day  join  hands  and  shout  and  sing,  "The 
Union,  now  and  forever,  one  and  indivisible." 

There  may  be,  and  no  doubt  there  will  be,  minor  dif- 
ferences of  opinion,  but  are  we  not  less  selfish  as  a  people 
and  so  respect  each  other's  views  ?  I  can  but  believe  that 
one  of  the  greatest  benefits  to  be  derived  from  this  Cotton 
Centennial  Exposition  will  be  the  bringing  together  of 
the  people  from  all  over  this  vast  country,  giving  us  an 
opportunity,  as  never  before,  of  knowing  one  another, 
wiping  out  all  sectional  lines,  knowing  no  North,  no 
South,  no  East,  no  West,  simply  a  solid  nation  from  the 
Canadas  to  the  Gulf,  and  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific 
over  which  shall  float  the  stars  and  stripes,  in  fact  and  in 
very  deed,  "over  the  land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of  the 
brave." 

As  a  token  of  the  fraternal  feeling  that  now  exists  our 
eyes  have  just  witnessed  a  scene  scarcely  precedented  in 
the  annals  of  history.  One  year  ago>  indeed,  a  Grand 
Army  Post  of  Connecticut,  named  after  that  gallant 
soldier,  James  E.  Moore,  under  whom  I  had  the  honor 
to  serve,  returned  to  the  Louisiana  Guards  of  this  city 
their  colors. 

Now,  to-day,  the  state  of  Connecticut  returns  through 
the  intrepid  Col.  Healy,  of  the  gallant  Ninth,  the  flag  they 
captured  from  the  equally  brave  and  gallant  men  of  the 
Third  Mississippi.  I  doubt  not  that  if  there  was  a  flag 
which  you  could  return  to  a  regiment  of  our  state  you 
would  be  quick  to  manifest  a  like  kindly  feeling  with  that 
which  we  exhibit  to-day.  Not  with  a  spirit  of  boasting, 
but  in  recognition  of  a  fact  which  does  honor  to  the  sol- 
diers whose  rifles  you  learned  to  respect,  I  may  be  per- 
mitted to  say  that  though  the  Connecticut  regiments  were 
often  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight,  and  though  their  flags 
were  pierced  with  shot  and  shell,  they  carried  them  back 


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to  their  native  state,  where  they  now  encircle  the  statue 
of  the  Governor,  who  presented  them,  with  not  one  left 
behind. 

And  now,  soldiers  of  the  two  armies,  but  now  citizens 
of  the  one  common  nation,,  recognizing  the  one  flag  and 
looking  forward  to  the  same  destiny,  let  us  address  our- 
selves to  the  new  duties  of  the  hour.  The  cry  of  earth's 
wailing  tribes  is  in  our  ear,  the  struggle  of  oppressed 
nationalities  is  before  our  eye;  let  us  build  stronger  and 
broader  this  temple  of  freedom,  that  those  who  wail  and 
those  who  struggle  may  here  find  a  rest  and  a  home,  and 
then  this  mighty  nation  shall  neither  crumble  nor  fall 
until  the  great  archangel  shall  stand  one  foot  upon  the 
sea  and  one  upon  the  land  and  declare  that  time  shall  be 
no  more. 

Mr.  J.  R.  G.  Pitkin,  of  New  Orleans,  next  spoke  as 
follows : 

I  am  summoned  by  the  Board  of  Management  of  this 
Exposition  to  discharge  a  pleasant  duty.  A  word  of 
preface : 

I  feel  wholly  at  home  with  men  of  Connecticut,  not  only 
because  I  was  a  school-boy  and  law  student  within  her 
borders,  and  because  I  have  since  stood  upon  her  plat- 
forms, but  especially  because  I  am  descended  from  her 
tempestuous  old  governor,  Wm.  Pitkin,  at  whose  council- 
board  sat  Jonathan  Trumbull  and  Roger  Sherman  among 
other  distinguished  patriots.  I  am  proud  of  my  New 
England  seasoning  and  of  the  rich  vital  contribution  she 
has  made  to  American  civilization  and  to  the  nation. 

With  this  obtrusion  of  self,  let  me  say  that  no  student 
of  American  growth  can  forget  that  Connecticut  drafted 
in  1639  tne  first  complete  charter  in  the  New  World,, 
in  which  was  lodged  all  the  material  fibre  of  our  present 
National  and  State  constitutions — and  that  she  projected 
her  wise  and  efficient  school  system  the  ensuing  year. 
She  felt  that  to  secure  a  stable  political  structure  she  must 
discreetly  mould  the  man  or  brick  with  which  to  erect  it. 

To  mature  the  man  to  his  best  competence  for  self- 
assertion,  and  to  afford  him  so  complete  a  representative 
plan  that  his  government  should  be  his  ampler  self,  were 
the  noble  aims  of  the  fathers  of  Connecticut ;  and  I  need 
not  add  that  her  enlightened  career  has  been  continuous 
testimony  to  their  wisdom. 


232 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 


Nor  need  I  recall  her  relation  to  the  French  and  Indian 
wars  and  her  sturdy  temper  toward  Great  Britain,  against 
which  she  proportionately  furnished  more  men  and 
money  than  any  other  colony.  These  and  other  historic 
events  of  that  past  were  simply  expressions  of  her  stout 
determination  to  compass  a  staunch  and  well-ordered 
commonwealth  or  to  expand  it  to  an  American  nation. 
She  may  have  talked  through  her  nose,  but  she  spoke  as 
well  through  her  guns  ;  she  may  have  shown  hard  elbows, 
but  it  was  to  open  a  path  for  manhood  and  for  a  splendid 
civilization.  She  had  loved  the  mother  country,  but  when 
her  sons  found  it  needful  to  draw  iron  colons  and  periods 
from  their  shot-pouches  to  interpret  the  misread  charter 
of  justice  to  man,  they  did  it  and  made  wadding  of 
British  prescripts. 

In  that  especially  dramatic  incident  in  her  history,  when 
the  royal  Governor  Andros  demanded  her  charter ;  when 
the  candles  upon  the  Assembly  table  where  it  lay  were 
suddenly  extinguished,  and  the  bold  Wadsworth  bore  it 
off  and  secreted  it  in  an  oak,  it  was  perhaps  a  rude  thing 
to  leave  his  Excellency  in  the  dark  and  for  the  rest  of  his 
term,  as  to  the  whereabouts  of  the  precious  patent, — and 
he  doubtless  twitched  his  ruffles  and  denounced  the  ill- 
mannered  colonists,  but  they  were  for  the  very  substance 
of  things  and  had  no  obeisance  nor  courtesies  to  pay  in 
which  was  a  jot  of  surrender.  In  rendering  unto  Caesar 
the  things  that  were  Caesar's  they  recognized  him  as 
standing  in  their  own  shoes  and  not  in  Andros'  red  coat. 
The  same  peremptory  moral  breath  that  blew  out  the 
Hartford  candles,  blew  later  from  the  cannon's  mouth 
patents,  governors  and  Great  Britain  herself  out  of  the 
colonies  and  across  the  Atlantic!  [Applause.]  There 
was  a  great  beneficent  purpose  behind  the  stern  visor  of 
the  colonist's  frown.  Connecticut  wanted  a  genuine  free- 
dom, and  this  trait  in  her  sons  may  explain  the  laxity  of 
her  divorce  laws  to-day.  [Laughter.]  It  is  a  marvel  that 
amid  all  her  harsh  early  experiences  she  exhibited  so 
little  of  the  intolerant  disposition  that  characterized 
Massachusetts  and  drove  Roger  Williams  thence  to 
Rhode  Island;  although  I  suspect  that  as  good  Roger 
wanted  his  Baptist  followers  to  lead  clean  lives  amid  all 
the  buffets  of  fortune,  he  had  an  orthodox  eye  upon 
Rhode  Island's  delightful  bays,  in  which  so  many  thou- 
sands of  us,  in  grateful  deference  to  his  memory,  seek  total 
immersion  every  summer.  [Laughter.] 


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There  is  certainly  no  record  that  Connecticut  ever 
punished  a  witch — except  by  marriage — and  I  soberly  re- 
member that  even  during  my  sojourn  there,  her  be- 
witching women  were  often  visited  with  this  penalty  after 
having  been  subjected  for  a  period  to  the  custody  of  some 
attentive  young  man  and  to  the  severe  conventional 
ordeal  of  singing  schools  and  sleigh  rides.  [Laughter.] 
In  fact,  my  chaotic  admixture  of  experience  and  hearsay 
moves  me  to  venture  the  somewhat  confident  statement 
that  the  custodian  has  been  known  to  surrender  the  reins 
to  the  fair  object  of  his  charge  and  hold  her  with  both 
arms  in  order  to  save  her  from  the  perilous  consequences 
of  her  rash  driving ;  and  the  slowness  of  the  horse  in  no 
wise  diminished  the  intense  police  power  of  his  solicitude. 
[Laughter.] 

Old  Samuel  Peters,  a  Tory  chaplain,  a  copy  of  whose 
Ancient  History  of  Connecticut  I  have  inherited  in  the 
original  edition, — and  Appleton's  reprint  of  five  or  six 
years  ago  is  at  the  command  of  you  all, — devised,  it  is 
clear,  what  were  called  the  Blue  Laws  of  Connecticut  as 
a  slander  upon  the  State,  and  a  man  who  ascribes  them 
to  her  to-day  by  way  of  taunt,  simply  discloses  his  dis- 
charity  and  ignorance.  The  liberality  of  her  people,  even 
in  Peter's  time,  is  indeed  a  matter  of  wonder.  Nor  can 
we  forget  that  Connecticut  has  been  a  nursery  of  men 
who  have  been  noble  factors  in  the  growth  of  other  States. 
Their  name  is  legion, — so  are  her  Yale  men, — so  are  her 
insurance  agents.  [Laughter.]  At  every  turn,  all  over 
the  Union,  we  are  reminded  that  an  educated  man  is  the 
best  gift  to  a  State  and  a  policy  the  best  honesty  to  a 
family.  [Laughter.]  With  her  colleges,  her  grand 
school  system,  her  libraries,  her  numerous  asylums,  hos- 
pitals and  factories, — with  her  affluent  resources  for 
brains  and  hands,  and  with  her  tons  of  manhood  to  the 
acre,  Connecticut  can  hold  her  head  erect  amid  her  sister- 
hood of  states  with  pride  for  her  history,  service  and  de- 
velopment, and  for  the  fruitful  distribution  of  her  worthy 
sons  throughout  the  Union. 

Her  return  of  these  Confederate  colors  to-day  imparts 
a  spirit  that  merits  our  grateful  notice.  A  peace  enforces 
a  grave  duty  upon  the  parties  to  it ;  it  demands  that  each, 
victor  and  vanquished,  shall  maintain  the  unbroken  stacks 
of  its  guns  and  forbear  to  re-awaken  enmities  concluded 
by  the  articles  of  peace.  In  view  of  the  precious  future 


234    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

before  us,  and  the  sober  relations  and  responsibility  of 
each  citizen  to  it,  there  is  no  dishonor  to  which  an  Ameri- 
can citizen  can  debase  himself  so  abject  as  that  of  fighting 
anew  the  old  issues,  whether  in  Connecticut  or  Louisiana 
— issues  that  remain  in  the  tranquil  hands  of  the  dead  and 
are  registered  in  the  ordinances  of  the  nation.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

In  this  regard  I  walk  the  soil  of  our  republic  as  I  en- 
ter a  cathedral,  with  a  reverent  sense  of  the  sacrifices 
and  examples  that  emphasize  the  personal  demand  upon 
myself.  Patriotism  should  be  a  religion.  I  do  not  study 
the  device  of  the  stole  or  the  face  of  the  ministrant  who 
wears  it,  nor  should  I  be  swerved  from  my  devout  civic 
duty  by  the  partisanship  of  any  Executive.  The  national 
altar  at  all  times  claims  my  affection  and  support,  and 
he  who  stands  by  it,  mantled  with  the  sanctity  of  popular 
will,  is  a  priest  in  holy  functions.  We  are  not  patriots  by 
paroxysms,  but  independently  of  the  quadrennial  fortunes 
of  party,  if  we  be  true  to  our  civic  trusts.  To  me,  as 
doubtless  to  you,  it  is  most  touching  to  see  these  Union 
veterans  bearing  back  these  colors  across  the  trenches 
and  hushed  plains  of  both  armies  with  fraternal  greeting. 
Surely  the  gray  storm-clouds  were  a  presage  of  this 
serener  blue  in  our  American  skies.  [Applause.] 
Heaven  has  its  own  plan  and  time.  Like  boys,  we  build 
our  statues  of  snow  and  pelt  each  other  with  snowballs  to 
assault  or  defend  them,  but  God,  with  a  grander  motive, 
nourishes  the  vitality  of  our  soul  with  it  for  the  vernal 
sun.  We  often  misconceive  the  winters  of  our  moral  and 
political  experience  until  the  benignant  summer  of  our 
prosperity  follows  upon  our  spent  statues,  snowballs  and 
red,  pathetic  stains  and  footprints.  I  believe  the  Ameri- 
can Union  was  never  so  firmly  entrenched  as  now  in  the 
fellowship  of  her  people ;  never  so  fully  assured  as  now  in 
the  warm,  fraternal  clasp  to  which  the  old,  stern  battle- 
clench  has  thawed  open  in  pledge  of  great  progressive 
ends. 

It  is  not  amiss  that  I  should  advert  to  a  body  that,  in 
1814,  met  at  the  capital  of  Connecticut — Hartford — where 
these  captured  colors  have  rested  for  a  score  of  years.  It 
was  composed  of  delegates  from  New  England  (Roger 
Sherman,  Harrison  Gray  Otis  and  George  Cabot  among 
the  number),  and  was  distinguished  for  such  candor  of 
purpose  against  the  Federal  government  in  its  prosecu- 


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tion  of  the  war  with  Great  Britain  that  a  Federal  military 
officer  was  upon  the  ground  to  watch  its  proceedings. 
The  rising  murmurs  of  this  war  were  the  cradle-song  of 
Louisiana  as  a  State.  It  is  not  seemly  for  me  at  this  late 
day  to  attempt  an  analysis  of  the  motives  that  signalized 
that  assemblage.  I  choose  rather  to  remember  that  the 
tidings  of  Jackson's  victory  below  this  city,  the  patriotic 
service  of  Louisianians  and  others  under  him,  and  the 
peace  concluded  at  Ghent,  arrested  the  perilous  purpose 
of  the  Hartford  Convention ;  to  know  that  throughout 
Connecticut  and  New  England  as  throughout  Louisiana 
there  is  to-day  a  common  and  fervid  zeal  to  maintain  this 
republic,  and  that  never  again  will  the  states,  whether  of 
New  England  or  of  the  South,  refuse,  as  then,  their 
militia  as  a  wall  between  her  and  hazard.  To-day  Con- 
necticut and  Louisiana,  the  former  visited  at  an  earlier 
and  the  latter  at  a  later  stage  of  its  history  with  a  charge 
of  treason,  meet  beneath  this  vast  roof  and  challenge  the 
faith  of  the  Union  as  bulwarks,  each  of  which  a  drum-tap 
will  man  with  tens  of  eager  thousands,  and  which  the 
arts  and  education  of  a  dearly  bought  peace  will  fortify 
to  a  surer  maintenance  of  a  jealous  American  brother- 
hood. 

"  The  old  order  changeth,  yielding  place  to  new, — 
And  God  fulfils  Himself  in  many  ways !" 

In  no  place  so  fitting  as  this,  where  the  American  man 
is  ennobled  by  industrial  achievement  and  is  bounteous  in 
suggestion  and  incentive,  could  this  challenge  and  pledge 
be  given,  and  a  declaration  be  made  for  the  Union  like 
Plato's  for  the  world  when  he  said :  "All  in  the  world  is 
for  the  sake  of  the  rest,  and  the  places  of  the  single  parts 
are  so  ordered  as  to  subserve  to  the  preservation  and  ex- 
cellency of  the  whole."  Gentlemen  of  the  Ninth  Con- 
necticut Regiment,  which  burst  through  our  gates  in 
1862,  report  to  your  comrades  upon  your  return  that  you 
have  found  in  this  old  city  no  sullen  hospitality,  and  that 
as  every  May  her  ex-Confederates  devoutly  visit  the 
graves  of  your  dead,,  so  to  your  living  she  is  always  sum- 
mer at  heart.  The  soil  whence  she  plucks  her  memorial 
blooms  and  the  heaped  arms  in  which  she  bears  them  to 
Chalmette,  are  always  yours,  come  when  you  may.  She 
will  cherish  your  dead,  and  her  pledge  is  the  surer  because 
she  fosters  her  own.  [Applause.] 


236    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

The  day  has  passed  when  these  banners  flared  like 
torches  in  the  grasp  of  hostile  armies  marching  through 
the  dark  hours  of  civil  conflict  toward  or  in  hope  of  vic- 
torious dawns.  We  all  face  the  same  way !  The  stern 
tramp  of  men  has  settled  to  the  metre  of  a  calm,  strong 
American  heart-beat,  and,  as  Pythagoras,  in  passing  a 
smithy,  caught  from  a  beaten  anvil  the  musical  scale  by 
which  nations  sing  their  paeans  in  brass  to-day,  so  the 
stern  pound  and  buffet  of  civil  war  have  disclosed  to 
North  and  South  the  grand  resources  of  prowess  and  the 
broad  brows  and  fervent  souls  with  which  we  all  as  fellow- 
countrymen  may  jointly  command,  under  Providence,  a 
destiny  for  History  and  Song  to  remember  forever.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  you  can  wholly  trust  these 
fighting  parsons  (pointing  to  Dr.  Markham)  upon  either 
side  and  their  congregations  of  Old  Ironsides  in  camp ; 
it  is  only  the  men  who,  after  the  great  struggle,  have  dis- 
covered their  tardy  gifts  of  valor  and  statesmanship ;  who 
insist  that  one's  manhood,  aspiration  and  civic  service 
were  grounded  with  one's  gun,  and  who  conceive  that 
taunt  is  argument  and  embittered  partisanship  is  patri- 
otic expression :  from  such  men  alone  can  come  menace 
to  our  common  country!  [Applause.] 

In  the  name  of  the  Board  of  Management,  men  of  Con- 
necticut and  of  Mississippi,  I  tender  you  an  unstinted 
welcome.  Over  the  heads  of  us  all,  as  brethren  from  the 
Canadian  to  the  Gulf  line,  one  standard  sways  upon  its 
staff  as  if  pent  with  a  mighty  and  generous  passion,  and 
God  grant  that  the  blood  in  its  stripes  may  never,  never, 
never  soak  into  its  stars ! 

The  Mexican  Band,  with  the  grand  organ  accompani- 
ment, then  played  "Marching  Through  Georgia,"  fol- 
lowed by  "Dixie."  Both  were  received  with  the  greatest 
enthusiasm,  which  rose  to  a  pitch  of  intensity  when  the 
two  great  military  anthems  were  blended  into  one,  as  it 
were,  and  "The  Star  Spangled  Banner"  sprung  from  the 
union. 

A  special  feature  in  the  musical  programme  of  the  ex- 
ercises was  the  use  of  the  grand  organ  by  Mr.  Harvy  P. 
Earle,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  whose  skillful  performance 


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seemed  to  lend  additional  beauty  to  the  tones  of  the  grand 
instrument  as  they  resounded  through  the  hall.  The 
effect  of  the  organ,  when  played  in  accompaniment  to 
the  Mexican  Band,  was  magnificent,  and  the  applause 
showered  on  the  musicians  testified  to  the  enjoyment  it 
afforded  the  audience. 


Capt.  Daniel  Curran,  of  the  Third  Mississippi,  who 
received  the  returned  flag  from  Col.  Healy,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  but  his  parents  removed  to  Pass  Chris- 
tian, Miss.,  when  he  was  but  six  years  of  age. 
There  they  settled.  When  the  war  broke  out 
young  Curran  was  very  zealous  and  active  in  aiding 
to  organize  the  Dahlgren  Guards,  of  Pass  Christian, 
which  became  attached  to  the  Third  Regiment,  Mis- 
sissippi Volunteers,  Featherstone's  Brigade,  Loring's 
Division.  He  joined  the  company  as  a  private,  took  part 
in  the  engagements  of  the  Tennessee  campaign,  as  well 
as  at  Vicksburg  and  Jackson,  Miss.  He  was  promoted 
to  the  captaincy  of  his  company  for  valor,  and  on  July  24, 
1864,  was  shot  through  the  body  at  the  battle  of  Peach 
Tree  Creek,  near  Atlanta,  Ga.,  from  which  wound  he 
never  fully  recovered. 

He  was  subsequently  employed  as  bookkeeper,  and 
later  accepted  a  position  in  the  Hibernia  Bank,  now  the 
Hibernia  National,  New  Orleans,  where  he  gave  such 
satisfaction  that  he  was  steadily  promoted,  and  finally  ap- 
pointed to  the  responsible  position  of  paying  teller.  Capt. 
Curran  was  a  member  of  the  Association  of  the  Army  of 
Tennessee,  and  was  much  beloved  and  esteemed  by  all 
who  knew  him. 

Shortly  after  the  Ninth's  committee  returned  to  Con- 
necticut from  New  Orleans,  the  following  letter  was  sent 
Capt.  Curran: 

NEW  HAVEN,  March  — ,  1885. 

Dear  Captain — During  the  brief  visit  to  your  city  of  the 
committee  of  the  9th  Connecticut  it  was  their  pleasure 


238     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTR  Y. 

to  be  entertained  in  a  marked  degree  by  several  gentle- 
men, to  whom  they  will  ever  feel  under  the  deepest  obli- 
gations. So  much  sincere  good  feeling  was  exhibited 
that  they  are  convinced  that  their  mission  was  a  fruitful 
one. 

They  wish  to  show  their  appreciation  of  your  efforts 
toward  the  accomplishment  of  their  desires  by  asking  you 
to  accept  a  cane,  sent  to  you  this  day,  as  a  memento  of 
their  esteem  for  you. 

May  you  carry  it  for  many  a  day,  and  when  old  age 
reaches  you,  and  your  steps  become  less  active,  lean  on 
the  cane,  and  remember  the  happy  occasion  that  made 
us  friends.  Yours  fraternally, 

JAMES  REYNOLDS, 
LAWRENCE  O'BRIEN, 
MICHAEL  P.  COEN, 
JOHN  G.  HEALY. 


The  cane  just  mentioned  was  a  gold-headed  one  of 
artistic  design.  On  one  side  of  the  head  were  engraved 
the  words :  "To  Capt.  Daniel  Curran  from  His  Friends, 
James  Reynolds,  Lawrence  O'Brien,  Michael  P.  Coen 
and  John  G.  Healy."  On  the  reverse  the  inscription  was  : 
"Connecticut  Day,  New  Orleans,  La.,  Feb.  26,  1885," 
and  on  the  end,  "Qth  C.  V.,  3d  Mississippi." 

The  following  pathetic  news  paragraph  appeared  in  a 
New  Orleans  paper  late  in  Jan.,  1894:  "Yesterday,  while 
the  laborers  were  at  work  digging  the  revetment  levee 
at  West  End,  they  found  the  skeleton  of  a  man  between 
two  pickets,  and  near  the  skeleton  was  found  a  brass  but- 
ton with  the  initials  'U.  S.,'  on  it.  The  skeleton  is  sup- 
posed to  be  that  of  one  of  the  United  States  soldiers 
belonging  to  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Regiment,  which 
was  stationed  at  West  End  when  General  Butler  was  in 
command  of  the  city.  The  skeleton  was  taken  in  charge 
by  Mr.  A.  B.  Messmer,  the  keeper  of  the  city  bridge,  and 
will  be  given  a  Christian  burial." 


CORPORAL  MICHAEL  P.  COEN,  NAUGATUCK. 
(Chairman  of  the  Publication  Committee  for  this  Volume). 


ROSTER 


OF  THE 


Ninth   Regiment, 

Connecticut  Volunteer  Infantry, 

1861-1865. 


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SOME  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES. 


IT  was  the  author's  original  intention  to  give  a  detailed 
biographical  sketch  of  every  officer  and  man  in  the 
regiment.  This  idea,  however,  was  finally  abandoned  for 
various  reasons.  It  was  found  that  in  hundreds  of  cases, 
owing  to  the  deaths  of  so  many  officers  and  men,  during 
and  since  the  war,  material  for  many  sketches  could  not 
be  obtained.  Even  if  such  material  could  be  secured,  the 
use  of  it  would  increase  the  size  of  the  present  volume 
far  beyond  that  contemplated  by  the  committee  on  publi- 
cation. 

A  few  salient  points,  however,  concerning  every  officer 
and  man  who  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  are  given  in  this  work. 
They  are  contained  in  the  roster  herewith  published.  So 
that  every  commissioned  and  non-commissioned  officer, 
every  private,  every  drummer  boy  and  every  member  of 
the  band  is,  in  some  manner,  noticed.  The  design  has 
been  to  include  all. 

The  following  sketches — mainly  of  commissioned  offi- 
cers— are  compiled  from  such  material  as  could  be  ob- 
tained at  this  distance  of  time  from  the  close  of  the  war. 
They  will,  it  is  believed,  be  found  of  much  interest : 

AVERY,  ASS'T  SURG.  GEORGE  W.,  resided  in 
Hampton,  Ct. ;  enlisted  in  the  Ninth,  Nov.  13,  1861 ; 
mustered,  Nov.  25,  1861 ;  promoted  surgeon  of  the  First 
regiment,  New  Orleans  Volunteers,  Dec.  8,  1863  5  dis- 
charged, June  i,  1866. 

BENNETT,  Q.  M.  NATHAN  L,  a  native  of  Bethel, 
Ct.  His  father  was  a  graduate  of  Yale,  and  commenced 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Bethel,  removing  to  Bridge- 
port, Ct.,  in  1852.  Nathan  L,  previous  to  the  war, 
had  been  a  clerk  in  the  Bridgeport  post  office.  He 


322     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regiment,  Aug.  17,  1861,  and  was 
mustered,  Oct.  30,  that  year,  as  quartermaster-sergeant 
of  the  regiment.  On  June  5,  1862,  he  was  promoted  regi- 
mental quartermaster,  succeeding  Quartermaster  William 
W.  Harral.  who  had  been  honorably  discharged,  June  5, 
1862.  Quartermaster  Bennett  resigned  Jan.  23,  1863,  and 
was  honorably  discharged. 

BOLGER,  LIEUT.  JOHN,  of  Company  D  of  the  bat- 
talion. (See  roster). 

BURKE,  LIEUT.  MARTIN,  of  Company  G  of  the 
regiment.  (See  roster). 

CAHILL,  COL.  THOMAS  W.,  born  in  Charlestown, 
(now  a  part  of  Boston),  Mass.,  Aug.  12,  1826;  son  of 
Lawrence  and  Mary  Ann  (Young)  Cahill.  The  family 
removed  to  New  Haven,  Ct.,  when  Thomas  was  a  child, 
and  settled  there.  The  boy  grew  up  to  manhood,  learned 
the  trade  of  ornamental  plasterer,  and  in  1851,  formed  a 
partnership,  the  firm  engaging  in  the  masonry  business. 
During  Father  Mathew's  visit  to  New  Haven,  in  1849, 
the  future  colonel  was  among  those  who  took  the  pledge 
from  that  great  total  abstinence  reformer.  Cahill  was  one 
of  the  founders,  in  1849,  °f tne  Washington-Erina  Guards, 
of  New  Haven,  and  served,  successively,  as  lieutenant  and 
captain  of  the  organization,  holding  the  latter  rank  at  the 
time  the  company  was  disbanded,  in  1855,  by  the  Know 
Nothing  administration.  He  was  also,  subsequently,  cap- 
tain of  the  Emmet  Guard,  of  New  Haven.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Common  Council  in  1857,  and  re-elected 
in  1858 ;  was  elected  Alderman  in  1859,  and  re-elected  in 
1860  and  1 86 1.  He  was  also  chosen  street  commissioner, 
but  resigned  the  latter  office  in  Nov.,  1861,  upon  being 
mustered  in  as  colonel  of  the  Ninth  regiment.  He  had 
been  very  active  in  the  interests  of  the  latter,  and  it  was 
largely  due  to  his  exertions  that  the  State  authorized  the 
formation  of  the  command.  Owing  to  his  efforts,  and 
those  of  a  splendid  set  of  officers,  the  regiment  was 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  323 

brought  to  a  high  degree  of  efficiency,  as  narrated  in 
the  foregoing  pages.  Col.  Cahill  was  very  highly  es- 
teemed by  Gen.  Butler,  Gen.  Phelps,  Gen.  Banks  and 
other  great  commanders  who  bore  testimony  to  his 
ability,  courage  and  fidelity.  He  was  appointed  to  com- 
mand the  defences  of  New  Orleans,  was  acting  brigadier- 
general  for  a  considerable  period,  and  acquitted  himself 
in  a  manner  creditable  alike  to  himself,  the  regiment,  the 
state  and  the  nation.  Much  of  his  military  career  is  told 
elsewhere  in  this  volume.  It  need  not,  therefore,  be 
dwelt  upon  here.  In  addition  to  holding  the  municipal 
offices  above  mentioned,  in  New  Haven,  he  also  served 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  education.  Col.  Cahill  was 
married  in  New  Haven,  Oct.  15,  1856,  to  Margaret  A. 
Lanin.  She  was  a  native  of  New  York  city.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  (i)  Mary  A.;  (2)  Edward  L. ;  (3)  Thomas 
M. ;  (4)  Ellen  J.  L. ;  (5)  Charles  J.  Colonel  Cahill  died 
in  New  Haven,  Aug.  31,  1869.  His  wife  died  there,  July 
25,  1870. 

CAHILL,  LIEUT.  JAMES,  belonged  in  Bridgeport, 
Ct.  He  enlisted  in  Company  D,  of  the  Ninth,  Sept.  7, 
1861,  and  was  mustered  as  corporal,  the  same  month.  He 
was  promoted  sergeant,  April  I,  1862;  second  lieutenant, 
May  21,  1862,  and  first  lieutenant,  May  29,  1863.  He  was 
honorably  discharged  Oct.  26,  1864.  Subsequently,  for 
several  years,  he  was  a  captain  in  the  National  Guard. 
He  is  now  engaged  in  business  in  Oakland,  Cal. 

CARROLL,  LIEUT.  DANIEL,  of  Company  B.  (See 
roster). 

CARROLL,  LIEUT.  JOHN,  of  Company  F,  and 
Company  B.  (See  roster). 

CARROLL,  LIEUT.  WILLIAM  H.,  enlisted  into  the 
Ninth  regiment,  C.  V.,  Sept.  3,  1861,  and  was  mustered 
in,  as  second  lieutenant  of  Company  F,  Oct.  30,  1861. 
He  belonged  in  Waterbury,  Conn.  He  resigned,  and  was 
honorably  discharged  from  the  regiment  Dec.  20,  1862. 


324 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


On  Aug.  24,  1864,  he  married  Mary  Murphy,  of  Water- 
bury.  Three  children  were  born,  viz :  William  H.,  Mary 
A.,  and  John.  Lieutenant  Carroll  died,  and  was  buried 
with  military  honors,  in  Waterbury,  some  twenty  years 
ago. 

CLAFFEE,  LIEUT.  PATRICK  T.,  born  in  Kings 
County,  Ireland,  March  13,  1832;  son  of  Thomas  and 
Ellen  Claffee.  He  was  brought  to  this  country  at  the 
age  of  five  years.  He  enlisted  into  the  Ninth,  Sept.  9, 
1861,  and  was  mustered,  Nov.  i ;  was  sergeant-major 
of  the  regiment ;  was  promoted  to  be  second  lieutenant 
of  Company  C,  Feb.  25,  1862 ;  was  promoted  to  be  first 
lieutenant  of  the  same  company,  May  18,  1862 ;  died  at 
New  Orleans,  La.,  Oct.  2,  1862.  His  body  was  brought 
home  to  the  residence  of  his  parents  in  Waterbury,  and 
was  given  a  military  funeral. 

CLANCEY,  LIEUT.  RICHARD  A.,  of  Company  D. 
(See  roster). 

COATES,  CAPT.  THOMAS  C.,  a  native  of  Limerick, 
Ireland,  born  March  8,  1805 ;  came  to  this  country  in 
early  manhood  and  finally  settled  in  Bridgeport,  Ct.  He 
enlisted  in  the  Fourth  U.  S.  Artillery,  Sept.,  1833,  and 
participated  in  operations  in  Alabama,  and  against  the 
Seminole  Indians.  He  was  honorably  discharged  in  Sept., 
1836.  In  1847,  ne  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-fourth  regi- 
ment, N.  Y.  Volunteers,  and  served  in  the  Mexican  war, 
being  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Pueblo.  Subsequently, 
he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Montgomery  Guards, 
Bridgeport,  Ct.,  the  company  being  among  those  dis- 
banded by  the  Know  Nothing  administration  in  1855. 
He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regiment,  C.  V.,  Aug.  21,  1861, 
and  was  mustered  as  captain  of  Company  D,  Oct.  30,  the 
same  year.  Before  leaving  for  the  front  with  the  Ninth, 
he  was  presented  a  sword  and  sash  by  the  ladies  of 
Bridgeport.  He  resigned  Oct.  15,  1862,  and  was  honor- 
ably discharged.  Capt.  Coates  died  Feb.  15,  1887, 
much  and  deservedly  regretted. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  325 

COEN,  CORPORAL  MICHAEL  P.,  born  in  Ireland, 
1843;  son  of  Michael  and  Catherine  (McCaffrey)  Coen; 
located  in  Waterbury,  Ct,  with  his  parents,  1849,  and  was 
educated  there.  When  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon,  the 
Rev.  Thomas  F.  Hendricken,  then  pastor  of  the  Immacu- 
late Conception  church,  Waterbury,  in  a  patriotic  address 
called  a  meeting  of  the  young  men  of  the  parish  in  the 
basement  of  the  church,  at  which  meeting  a  company  for 
three  months  was  organized  with  the  principal  of  the 
school  as  captain  and  Mr.  Coen  as  a  corporal,  and  its 
service  tendered  Gov.  Buckingham. 

As  the  short  time  regiments  were  full,  the  company 
waited  several  weeks  and  was  then  mustered  as  Company 
F  into  the  Ninth  Connecticut.  Mr.  Coen  was  the  young- 
est member  of  Company  F.  His  father  died  while  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Twentieth  Connecticut  regiment  and  an  elder 
brother,  John  P.  Coen,  was  killed  while  a  member  of 
Company  F  of  the  Ninth.  Mr.  Coen,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  also  saw  nine  months'  service  in  the  United  States 
Signal  Corps  to  which  men  of  a  high  grade  were  trans- 
ferred. Both  Michael  P.,  and  John  P.  Coen,  the  brothers, 
were  corporals  in  the  Ninth. 

After  four  years'  service  Michael  P.  returned  to  Water- 
bury  and  soon  became  interested  in  the  Fenian  move- 
ment, being  the  chief  mustering  officer  of  Connecticut. 
Waterbury  played  an  important  part  in  furnishing  men 
and  money  for  the  invasion  of  Canada,  being  the  state 
military  headquarters  with  Major  Bannon  commanding 
and  Judge  A.  H.  Fenn,  aide  o<n  the  staff  of  Gen.  Sweeney. 
Mr.  Coen  is  now  one  of  the  prominent  residents  and 
business  men  of  Naugatuck,  Ct.  He  is  a  public  spirited 
citizen,  active  in  all  measures  for  the  general  welfare,  and 
is  very  highly  esteemed.  His  connection  with  the  G.  A. 
R.  is  a  most  honorable  one.  He  has  served  as  aide  on 
the  staff  of  the  department  Commander  and  also  as  aide 
on  the  staff  of  Commander-in-chief  Veazey.  He  was  a 
delegate  from  Connecticut  to  the  National  encamp- 


326    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

ment  and  a  visitor  to  the  soldiers'  home  at  Noroton.  "As 
a  citizen  and  business  man,"  states  a  writer,  "Mr.  Coen 
has  taken  a  high  rank  in  Naugatuck ;  being  connected 
with  many  of  its  public  enterprises,  a  section  of  the  bor- 
ough and  a  street  being  named  after  him.  He  is  an  active 
member  of  St.  Francis'  church,  aiding  it  materially,  hav- 
ing purchased  the  location  of  the  present  church  and  new 
cemetery.  His  entire  time  is  now  given  to  managing  the 
affairs  of  the  Salem  Spring  Ice  Company,  of  which  he  is 
the  principal  owner."  He  was  married  at  Naugatuck,  Ct., 
in  1866.  to  Catherine  Mulvey.  Corporal  John  P.  Coen, 
Michael's  brother,  was  accidentally  killed  by  the  cars 
on  the  New  Orleans  &  Jackson  railroad,  May  27,  1863, 
while  serving  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf.  He  had 
been  a  teacher  in  a  National  School,  at  Mount  Rath, 
Queen's  County,  Ireland. 

COOGAN,  LIEUT.  JOHN  (also  written  Cogan),  a 
native  of  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  born  in  1826.  He  came  to 
this  country  when  quite  young,  with  his  parents,  and 
settled  in  New  Haven,  Ct.  He  married  Ellen  Shanna- 
han  and  became  the  father  of  nine  children, — three 
daughters  and  six  sons.  Their  names :  Mary,  Nellie  L., 
Julia,  James  J.,  Richard  T.,  John  F.,  William  H.,  Ed- 
ward R.,  and  Henry  F.  Lieut.  Coogan  enlisted  from 
New  Haven,  in  the  Ninth,  Aug.  16,  1861,  and  was  mus- 
tered second  lieutenant  Oct.  30,  that  year.  He  was  pro- 
moted first  lieutenant,  April  10,  1862,  and  resigned  Jan. 
31,  1863. 

COLE,  LIEUT.  ANDREW,  of  Company  K.  (See 
roster). 

CONNORS,  LIEUT.  THOMAS,  a  native  of  Wex- 
ford,  Ireland;  born  in  1838;  became  a  resident  of  Dan- 
bury,  Ct.  He  enlisted,  Aug.  24,  1861,  in  Company  A, 
of  the  Ninth,  and  was  mustered,  as  corporal,  Sept.  27, 
that  year.  He  was  promoted  first  sergeant  of  his  com- 
pany Aug.  31,  1862,  and  second  lieutenant  Dec.  14,  1863. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  2861-1863.  327 

On  Oct.  12,  1864,  he  was  transferred  to  Company  A,  of 
the  Ninth  battalion,  C.  V. ;  was  captured  at  Cedar  Creek, 
Va.,  Oct.  19,  1864,  and  was  paroled  March  i,  1865.  He 
was  honorably  discharged  March  3,  1865. 

CRONAN,  SERGT.  MICHAEL,  born  in  County 
Mayo,  Ireland,  Jan.  5,  1824;  came  to  America,  in  1848; 
resided  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey  four  years,  and  for  over 
fifty  years  past  has  been  a  resident  of  Naugatuck,  Ct.  He 
married  Annie  McNally.  Of  their  eight  children,  five 
are  living,  viz:  Stephen  A.,  captain  in  the  Fourth  regi- 
ment, C.  N.  G. ;  Edward  O.,  a  detective  in  Bridgeport, 
Ct. ;  and  daughters  Catharine,  Jennie  and  Tessie.  Sergt. 
Cronan  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regiment,  Sept.  28,  i86*t, 
and  was  mustered  as  a  corporal  of  Company  F,  Oct. 
12,  that  year.  He  was  promoted  to  sergeant,  Jan.  i, 

1863,  and  was  at  one  period  color  sergeant. 

CURTIS,  CAPT.  ELLIOT  M.,  born  in  Bridgeport, 
Ct.,  of  Pilgrim  stock  ;  was  educated  in  the  public  schools. 
At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  he  assisted  in  re- 
cruiting the  Third  regiment,  C.  V.,  for  three  months  ser- 
vice. He  was  appointed  second  lieutenant  in  Company  D, 
and  was  mustered  April  25,  1861.  He  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Bull  Run,  July  21,  that  year.  After  being  mus- 
tered out,  he  was  made  first  lieutenant  of  Company  C, 
Tenth  regiment,  C.  V.,  and  was  mustered,  Sept.  25, 
1861.  Transferred  to  Company  I,  of  the  Ninth  regiment, 
C.  V.,  he  was  mustered  as  captain  of  the  latter  com- 
pany. He  was  a  splendid  officer  and  one  of  the  most 
popular  captains  in  the  regiment.  During  his  service 
with  the  Ninth  he  was,  at  one  time,  assistant  provost  mar- 
shal at  New  Orleans,  La.,  and  later  provost  marshal  at 
Madison,  La.  He  was  mustered  out,  Oct.  26,  1864.  Sub- 
sequently, he  became  major  in  the  Fourth  U.  S.  Veteran 
Volunteers  (Hancock's),  and  was  mustered,  Dec.  29, 

1864.  He  was  on  duty  as  superintendent  of  the  recruit- 
ing service,  in  Connecticut,  for  the  Veteran  Corps,  Jan. 


328    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

I  to  April  1 6,  1865 ;  organized  the  Fourth  Veteran  regi- 
ment ;  left  Washington,  D.  C.,  April,  1865 ;  marched  to 
Winchester,  Va. ;  returned  to  Washington  in  May.  He 
did  guard  duty  over  the  prisoners  charged  with  the  as- 
sassination of  President  Lincoln,  and  at  the  scaffold 
during  their  execution.  He  was  mustered  out,  March  16, 
1866.  Major  Curtis  died  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal,  about 
nine  years  ago. 

CURTIS,  LIEUT.  JOHN  C.,  a  native  of  Bridgeport, 
Ct.,  born  April  17,  1845.  He  enlisted  from  Bridgeport, 
in  the  Ninth,  Aug.  17,  1861,  and  was  mustered  a  corporal 
of  Company  I,  Oct.  30,  the  same  year.  He  was  promoted 
sergeant  in  the  company  Jan.  8,  1862,  and  was  appointed 
sergeant-major  of  the  regiment,  May  31,  1862.  He  was 
promoted  second  lieutenant  Sept.  24,  1862,  and  first  lieu- 
tenant of  Company  G,  August  10,  1863.  Lieut.  Curtis 
was  honorably  discharged  in  Oct.,  1864.  He  is  now 
superintendent  of  the  New  England  division  of  the  Adams 
Express  Co.,  with  headquarters  in  Boston,  Mass.  He 
was  married,  Nov.  8,  1870,  to  Adeleine  Stuart.  They  have 
had  nine  children,  viz:  Victor  S.,  Clapp  S.,  Gladys  H., 
Henry  S.,  John  K.,  Sarah  G.,  Adeleine  M.,  Vera  C.,  and 
Eliot  R.  Lieut.  Curtis  and  Capt.  (afterwards  Major)  E. 
M.  Curtis,  mentioned  above,  were  brothers.  Another 
brother,  Frederick,  served  four  years  as  sergeant  in  the 
First  Connecticut  cavalry,  and  was  captured  by  Col. 
Mosby  in  the  Shenandoah  valley,  but  escaped  within  a 
few  hours  and  got  back  safely  to  camp  instead  of  being 
taken  a  prisoner  to  Libby. 

DOWNING,  LIEUT.  EDMUND,  of  Company  C,  of 
the  battalion.  (See  roster). 

DUFFY,  CAPT.  JOHN,  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland, 
March  6,  1825 ;  came  to  this  country  with  his  parents  at 
the  age  of  seven  years ;  eventually  settled  in  New  Haven, 
Ct. ;  was  one  of  the  founders,  in  1849,  °f  tne  Washington- 
Erina  Guards  of  the  latter  place.  He  was  the  first  captain 


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of  the  company.  Early  in  the  Civil  War,  he  was  given  a 
government  contract,  but  relinquished  it  to  assist  in  or- 
ganizing the  Ninth  regiment.  He  was  mustered  as 
captain  of  Company  A,  and  served  with  fidelity  and  cour- 
age until  his  resignation  in  April,  1862,  when  he  was 
honorably  discharged.  He  died  June  8,  1874,  leaving  a 
wife,  a  daughter  and  two  sons. 

FATRCHILD,  LIEUT.  FREDERICK  M.,  born  in 
Newtown,  Ct.,  Dec.  23,  1838 ;  son  of  Josiah  B.,  and  Eliza 
(Dibble)  Fairchild.  He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  and  was,  later,  graduated  from  the  New- 
town  Academy.  At  the  age  of  16  years,  he  became 
bookkeeper  at  the  Crescent  foundry  in  Bridgeport,  Ct., 
and  retained  that  position  up  to  the  time  of  his  enlistment, 
1861,  into  the  First  Connecticut  Infantry.  He  was  first 
sergeant  in  Company  H,  of  that  regiment,  and  was  at  the 
first  battle  of  Bull  Run.  After  three  months'  service,  he 
returned  to  Bridgeport  and  assisted  in  recruiting  a  com- 
pany for  the  Ninth  regiment.  He  enlisted  into  the  Ninth, 
Feb.  18,  1862;  was  mustered,  April  10,  the  same  year; 
became  first  lieutenant  of  Company  K,  and  died  of  sick- 
ness at  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  July  21,  1862,  much  regretted. 
He  was  a  very  efficient  officer,  of  pleasant  demeanor,  and 
was  greatly  liked  in  company  and  regiment. 

FINNEGAS,  LIEUT.  HENRY,  of  Company  K.  (See 
roster). 

FITZ  GIBBON,  LIEUT.  COL.  RICHARD,  born, 
Oct.  6,  1836,  in  Montreal,  Can. ;  is  now  a  resident  of 
Bridgeport,  Ct.  His  parents  were  Edmond  and  Johanna, 
who,  in  1832,  emigrated  from  Ireland  to  Canada,  later  re- 
moving to  Albany,  N.  Y.,  New  York  city  and  Bridgeport, 
Ct.  Edmond,  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon's  father,  was  born 
in  1810,  at  Youghal,  County  Cork,  Ireland,  where  he  wed- 
ded Johanna  Lockhart  of  the  same  county.  They  had 
six  children.  The  mother  died  in  1885  and  the  father  in 
1893,  both  at  Bridgeport,  Ct.  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon, 


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the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  eldest  of  the  six  chil- 
dren. He  was  apprenticed  to  the  firm  of  Harral  &  Cal- 
houn,  Bridgeport,  to  learn  the  saddler's  trade.  After 
serving  some  time  in  this  business,  he  abandoned  it  to 
fill  a  position  as  storekeeper  on  the  North  Star  and  Ariel, 
of  the  Vanderbilt  line  of  steamers,  plying  between  New 
York,  and  Havre,  France,  and  touching  at  Southampton, 
England.  He  remained  with  the  line  nearly  three  years 
and  crossed  the  ocean  many  times.  In  1860,  he  accepted 
a  position,  as  messenger,  with  the  Adams  Express  Co., 
his  "run"  being  between  Bridgeport,  Ct,  and  Great  Bar- 
rington,  Mass.  He  was  thus  engaged  when  the  Civil  War 
broke  out.  He  had  long  been  interested  in  the  Con- 
necticut State  militia,  having  served  in  the  same  for  some 
years.  He  had  commanded  the  famous  Washington 
Light  Guard,  of  Bridgeport,  and  was  commissioned 
Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Eighth  Regiment  of  militia  of 
the  State.  When  President  Lincoln's  first  call  came  for 
volunteers  to  defend  the  Union,  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon 
promptly  responded,  and  recruited  Company  H  for  the 
First  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers.  He  was  com- 
missioned captain  of  this  company  April  20,  1861.  The 
regiment  served  in  Tyler's  department,  of  Northwestern 
Virginia,  from  May,  1861.  It  participated  in  the  engage- 
ment June  17  and  at  Bull  Run,  July  21.  It  was  mustered 
out  of  service  at  New  Haven,  Ct.,  July  31,  1861.  On  his 
return  home,  Fitz  Gibbon  assisted  in  organizing  a  second 
company,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Sixth  Regiment,  Con- 
necticut Volunteers,  as  a  captain.  About  this  time,  steps 
were  under  way  to  organize  the  Ninth,  an  Irish  regiment. 
Fitz  Gibbon  decided  to  join  this  regiment  and  was  mus- 
tered in  as  lieutenant  colonel.  He  was  in  command  of 
the  Ninth  from  June  24,  1863,  to  Oct.  26,  1864,  the 
colonel  of  the  regiment,  Thomas  W.  Cahill,  serving  on 
detached  duty  as  commander  of  the  defences  of  New  Or- 
leans and  acting  brigadier-general.  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gib- 
bon was,  at  one  time  during  the  war,  honored  by  an  ap- 


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pointment  to  the  staff  of  Gen.  Reynolds.  He  reported 
to  the  latter,  but  it  having  been  shown  to  Gen.  Reynolds 
that  he  could  not  very  well  be  spared  from  the  Ninth,  he 
was  relieved  and  reported  back  to  the  regiment.  Lieut. 
Col.  Fitz  Gibbon  was  mustered  out  in  Oct.,  1864,  his 
term  of  service  having  expired.  He  immediately  took 
steps  to  join  a  corps  of  veterans,  which  was  being  re- 
cruited by  Gen.  Hancock,  and  sent  in  his  application,  but 
the  matter  was  finally  dropped  owing  to  the  approaching 
close  of  the  war.  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon  married  Miss 
Nellie  A.  Barnum.  She  died  July  12,  1889.  He  was  an 
officer  of  great  ability.  Possessing  excellent  judgment 
and  a  splendid  military  training,  he  was  always  quick  to 
plan  and  prompt  to  act.  He  was  a  popular  officer,  fear- 
less in  the  face  of  danger,  and  a  credit  to  his  ancestry,  to 
Connecticut,  and  to  the  Union.  Two  of  his  brothers, 
Thomas  and  John,  also  served  the  cause  of  the  Union,  in 
the  Ninth  Connecticut.  The  former,  LIEUT.  THOMAS 
FITZ  GIBBON,  also  of  Bridgeport,  Ct,  became  regi- 
mental quartermaster  and  was  an  excellent  officer.  He 
rendered  splendid  service,  especially  in  the  Shenandoah 
campaign,  in  bringing  up  the  stores.  Sheridan's  army 
was  always  on  the  move  and  that  fact,  together  with  the 
presence  in  the  region  of  Mosby's  Cavalry  and  other 
Confederate  forces,  made  this  duty  of  transporting  stores 
a  matter,  at  times,  of  great  difficulty.  But  Quartermaster 
Fitz  Gibbon  was  equal  to  the  task.  He  was  mustered  out 
in  1864.  JOHN  FITZ  GIBBON,  another  brother,  of 
Lieut.  Col  Fitz  Gibbon,  was  likewise  of  Bridgeport,  Ct. 
He  served  as  a  private  in  Company  K,  of  the  Ninth,  en- 
listing May  29,  1862.  As  a  result  of  the  Baton  Rouge  and 
Vicksburg  campaigns,  his  health  suffered  and  he  was  sent 
to  St.  James  Hospital,  New  Orleans.  In  1863,  he  was 
honorably  discharged  from  the  service  by  reason  of  dis- 
ability. 

FOLEY,  CAPT.  JOHN,  a  native  of  Queen's  County, 
Ireland ;  served  on  the  constabulary  or  police  force  in  that 


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country.  He  came  to  Waterbury,  Ct.,  a  few  years  before 
the  Civil  War  broke  out.  On  Sept.  3,  1861,  he  enlisted 
into  the  Ninth  regiment,  and  was  mustered,  Oct.  30, 
that  year.  He  became  captain  of  Company  F  of  the  regi- 
ment. He  resigned,  and  was  honorably  discharged  Dec. 
20,  1862.  He  returned  home  to  Waterbury,  died  shortly 
afterwards,  and  was  buried  with  military  honors. 

WRIGHT,  CAPT.  WILLIAM,  a  graduate  of  Trinity 
College,  Dublin;  became  a  lieutenant  in  rifle  Company 
E,  Third  regiment,  C.  V.  Enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regiment, 
Sept.  9,  1861,  and  was  mustered,  Oct.  30,  becoming  cap- 
tain of  Company  G.  A  biographical  sketch  states  that  he 
participated  in  the  affair  at  Blackburn's  Ford,  July  18, 
1 86 1.  He  commanded  a  company  of  sappers  and  miners 
under  Capt.  Barton  G.  Alexander,  Corps  of  Engineers, 
U.  S.  A.  On  July  21,  1861,  Wright  made  a  successful 
reconnoisance  at  Stone  Bridge,  during  the  heat  of  the 
engagement,  for  which  he  received  the  thanks  of  Gov. 
Buckingham,  of  Connecticut.  He  was  promoted  to  a 
captaincy  in  the  Ninth  Regiment,  C.  V.,  and  landed  on 
Ship  Island,  Mississippi  Sound,  with  the  Ninth,  in  De- 
cember, 1861.  He  also  served  with  the  expedition  under 
Major  Gen.  B.  F.  Butler  at  the  capture  of  New  Orleans ; 
was  in  the  expedition  to  Vicksburg,  under  the  command 
of  Gen.  Thomas  Williams,  in  1862 ;  participated  in  the 
affair  at  Chattahoola  Station,  La.,  June  24,  1863 ;  com- 
manded the  outpost  at  Proctorville,  La.,  from  April,  1864, 
to  August,  the  same  year ;  crossed  the  Potomac  at  Chain 
Bridge,  with  the  Ninth,  marched  via  Leesburg  and 
Snicker's  Gap  to  Berryville,  Va.,  and  served,  with  his 
regiment,  in  the  army  under  Gen.  P.  H.  Sheridan  in  the 
Shenandoah  Valley.  He  participated  in  the  battles  of 
Winchester  and  Fisher's  Hill ;  was  mustered  out  Oct.  26, 
1864.  In  1872,  Capt.  Wright  was  appointed  U.  S.  Ship- 
ping Commissioner  for  the  port  of  New  Orleans  and  held 
the  position  many  years.  He  was  State  Registrar  of 
Voters  (Louisiana)  from  1874  to  1876.  In  1873,  he  also 


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occupied  the  position  of  Assistant  Recorder  for  the 
Fourth  District,  and  superintended  the  taking  and  com- 
piling of  the  census  of  Louisiana  in  1875.  In  October, 
1844,  Judge  Don  A.  Pardee  appointed  him  a  U.  S.  Com- 
missioner of  the  Circuit  Court  for  the  Eastern  District  of 
Louisiana. 

FRYE,  MAJOR  FREDERICK,  a  native  of  Montgom- 
ery, N.  Y. ;  was  descended  from  a  long  line  of  soldiers.  He 
was  son  of  Daniel  M.  Frye  of  New  York  city ;  grandson 
of  Capt.  Frederick  Frye  of  the  Regular  army ;  and  great- 
grandson  of  Col.  James  Frye  of  Andover,  Mass.,  who 
was  an  aide  on  Pepperell's  staff  at  the  taking  of  Louis- 
burg  (1745),  and  who  was  in  command  of  a  regiment  of 
colonial  troops  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  (1775).  Major 
Frye,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  educated  in  New 
York  city,  whither  he  had  removed,  when  a  boy,  with  his 
family.  He  was  graduated  from  Columbia  College,  and 
began  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York.  In  1848,  he  was 
an  alderman  of  that  city,  and  the  same  year  he  married 
Matilda,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Brooks  of  Bridgeport, 
Ct.  In  1849  Major  Frye  with  his  brother-in-law,  B.  S. 
Brooks,  and  others,  fitted  out  the  ship  Balance  and  sailed 
for  California.  He  subsequently  returned  to  New  York, 
and  afterwards  formed  a  law  partnership  with  William 
H.  Noble,  of  Bridgeport,  Ct.,  where  they  practiced  their 
profession.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  both 
partners  enlisted.  Major  Frye  went  out  first  as  a  captain 
in  the  Third  Connecticut  regiment  and  rendered  splendid 
service.  Later,  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regiment,  and 
was  mustered  as  major  of  the  command,  Nov.  I,  1861. 
He  was  honorably  discharged,  Oct.  26,  1864.  At  the 
close  of  the  war,  he  settled  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  where 
he  continued  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  was  at 
one  time  Judge  of  the  Sixth  District,  that  city.  Subse- 
quently, he  engaged  in  railroad  promotion  in  Texas,  but 
the  climate  disagreed  with  his  already  failing  health  and 
compelled  him  to  give  up  the  business.  He  accepted  a 


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position  in  the  New  Orleans  custom  house,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death,  June  22,  1881.  Major 
Frye  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  and 
of  other  patriotic  organizations.  His  only  son,  Frederick 
Frye,  Jr.,  died  of  yellow  fever  at  New  Orleans,  Nov.  3, 
1867,  aged  eleven  years.  The  Major  was  survived  by  his 
wife  and  two  daughters,  the  latter  being  Mrs.  George 
Curtis-Waldo,  of  Bridgeport,  Ct.,  and  Mrs.  John  Wesley 
Hillman,  of  Hope  Villa,  East  Baton  Rouge  Parish,  La. 
Mrs.  Frye,  widow  of  the  Major,  died  at  Bridgeport,  Ct., 
in  Nov.,  1895. 

GALLAGHER,  SURG.  CHARLES  A.,  was  born  in 
New  York  city,  1836 ;  educated  in  the  public  schools  ;  was 
graduated  from  Bellevue  Medical  College,  1857;  was 
subsequently  stationed  at  Blackwell's  Island  hospital,  N. 
Y.,  1858.  He  came  to  New  Haven,  Ct.,  in  1860;  enlisted 
into  the  Ninth,  Oct.  4,  1861,  as  surgeon;  was  mustered, 
Nov.  17,  1 86 1,  and  served  until  the  expiration  oi  his  term, 
Oct.,  1864.  He  was,  for  a  number  of  years,  registrar  of 
vital  statistics,  New  Haven.  He  died  at  New  Haven  in 
1873,  as  the  result  of  a  fall  from  a  cherry  tree.  He  mar- 
ried, about  1860,  Winifred  Brady  of  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
who  died  at  New  Haven  late  in  1890.  Their  children 
were :  Catherine,  Julia,  Mary  (deceased),  Winifred, 
Ellen,  and  Charles  A.  (deceased). 

GARVEY,  CAPT.  PATRICK,  a  native  of  the  County 
Clare,  Ireland,  born  in  1824.  He  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1828,  resided  in  Clinton  County,  New  York, 
about  two  years  and  removed  to  New  Haven,  Ct.,  in  1830, 
where  he  remained  until  1854,  when  he  settled  in  Meri- 
den,  Ct.  Under  date  of  Dec.  27,  1852,  he  was  commis- 
sioned captain  of  Company  D,  Second  regiment,  by  Gov- 
ernor Seymour  of  Connecticut.  This  company  was 
known  as  the  "Jac^son  Guards,"  of  New  Haven,  and  was 
one  of  the  companies  disbanded  by  the  Know  Nothing 
administration  in  1855.  Capt.  Garvey  had  resigned  his 
commission  in  1854.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regiment, 


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C.  V.,  Aug.  22,  1861,  was  mustered  as  captain  of  Com- 
pany B,  Oct.  31,  that  year,  and  served  until  honorably 
discharged,  Oct.  26,  1864. 

GLEESON,  LIEUT.  WILLIAM,  born  in  New  Haven, 
Ct.,  July  1 6,  1841  ;  son  of  Denis  and  Margaret  (O'Meara) 
Gleeson.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth,  and  was  mustered  as 
a  private  of  Company  A,  Oct.  30,  1861.  He  was  pro- 
moted successively,  to  be  corporal,  sergeant  and  first  ser- 
geant in  the  company.  He  re-enlisted,  and  became  sec- 
ond lieutenant  of  Company  C,  Ninth  battalion,  C.  V., 
being  later  transferred  to  Company  D.  He  was  mustered 
out  Aug.  3,  1865.  In  1861,  when  recruiting  began  for 
the  regiment,  he  went  into  camp  on  the  arsenal  grounds 
at  Hartford  with  the  first  squad  recruited  and  was  among 
the  last  of  the  battalion  to  be  mustered  out.  His  wife 
was  born  in  New  York  city,  her  maiden  name  being  Sin- 
nott.  Of  the  children  of  Lieut,  and  Mrs.  Gleeson,  James 
J.,  graduated  from  Manhattan  College,  New  York ;  and 
later,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  from  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania;  Margaret  M., 
is  a  graduate  of  Mount  St.  Joseph's  Seminary,  Hartford ; 
William  F.,  graduated  from  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven,  and  is  now  associated  with  his  father 
in  business ;  Mary  C.,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Hillhouse  High 
School,  New  Haven,  and  of  the  State  Normal  School, 
and  is  a  teacher;  Catherine  V.,  and  Teresa  E.,  the  two 
other  children,  are  attending  the  Hillhouse  High  School. 
Lieut.  Gleeson  had  a  brother  Dennis  J.,  who  also  served 
with  the  Ninth  regiment  and  battalion  and  was  mustered 
out  Aug.  3,  1865.  Another  brother,  is  rector  of  St. 
Joseph's  Church,  Willimantic,  Ct. 

GOODMAN,  LIEUT.  LEWIS  H,  of  Company  A, 
Company  F,  and  Company  K  of  the  regiment,  and  Com- 
pany D  of  the  battalion.  (See  roster). 

GRAHAM,  CAPT.  JAMES  W.,  born  in  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  Can.,  April  25,  1842 ;  removed  with  his  mother 


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to  Connecticut  in  Dec.,  1852,  his  father  having  died  when 
James  was  but  two  years  of  age.  The  boy  had  attended 
school  in  Canada  and  continued  his  studies  after  becom- 
ing a  resident  of  Connecticut.  He  enlisted  into  Company 
G,  First  Connecticut  Volunteers,  April  23,  1861,  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run.  His  term  of 
service  having  expired  in  that  regiment,  he  enlisted  into 
the  Tenth  Connecticut  Volunteers  and  joined  the  com- 
pany commanded  by  Capt.  Fred.  Frye.  He  was  trans- 
ferred with  that  company  to  the  Ninth  regiment,  C.  V., 
Capt.  Frye  becoming  major  of  the  Ninth.  The  com- 
pany became  Company  I  of  the  Ninth,  and  Elliot  M. 
Curtis  being  made  captain  of  the  same.  Graham  was 
mustered  as  a  sergeant  and  was  made  first  sergeant 
in  April,  1862.  He  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant 
of  Company  I,  subsequently  became  first  lieutenant  of 
the  company  and  was,  for  a  period,  acting  adjutant  of  the 
regiment.  He  was  commissioned  captain  of  Company  D, 
Ninth  battalion,  C.  V.,  in  Dec.  1864.  In  May,  1865,  Capt. 
Graham  was  appointed,  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  M.  S.  Little- 
field,  as  provost  marshal  of  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  relieved  to  be  mustered  out. 
He  became  a  lawyer  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  in  Mas- 
sachusetts, Oct.  1 6,  1873.  For  many  years  past,  he  has 
been  engaged  in  journalism  and  is  now  editor  and  prin- 
cipal owner  of  the  Evening  Mail,  Maiden,  Mass. 

HARRAL,  Q.  M.  WILLIAM  W.,  a  resident  of 
Bridgeport,  Ct,  and  was  a  member  of  a  prominent  family 
there.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regiment,  Oct.  17,  1861, 
and  was  mustered  as  quartermaster,  Nov.  25,  1861.  He 
was  honorably  discharged  June  5,  1862,  being  succeeded 
as  quartermaster  by  Nathan  I.  Bennett.  Quartermaster 
Harral's  father  was  mayor  of  Bridgeport,  Ct.,  for  three 
terms. 

HEALY,  CAPT.  THOMAS  F.,  born  at  Fern  Hill, 
County  Clare,  Ireland ;  came  to  America  in  1848;  settled 


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in  Derby,  Ct.,  where  he  married,  Mary  Monaghan,  a 
native  of  the  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  and  successfully  en- 
gaged in  the  grocery  business  until  1857.  He  then  went 
to  California,  and  spent  three  years  in  the  gold  fields,  meet- 
ing much  success.  He  returned  to  Derby,  and  soon  after 
the  war  broke  out.  He  enlisted  into  the  Ninth  regiment, 
Sept.  5,  1 86 1,  being  mustered,  the  same  month,  He 
was  first  sergeant  of  Company  E,  and  was  promoted  to 
be  first  lieutenant  of  Company  K,  March  7,  1862.  He 
was  promoted  to  be  captain  of  the  latter  company,  Sept. 
5,  1862.  He  served  until  the  expiration,  in  Oct.,  1864, 
of  his  term  of  service.  He  then  returned  to  Derby,  again 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  and  so  continued  until 
his  death.  Capt.  and  Mrs.  Healy  had  five  children,  viz : 
Mrs.  John  T.  Holian,  of  Springfield,  Mass. ;  Margaret 
(who  died  in  infancy) ;  Mary  (who  died  at  the  age  of  three 
years),  James  T.  of  Derby,  Conn.,  and  Dr.  Thomas  F.,  of 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 

HEALY,  COL.  JOHN  G.,  born  in  New  Haven,  Ct., 
Feb.  12,  1841 ;  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Gray)  Healy. 
He  was  the  oldest  of  eight  children,  the  others  being: 
(2),  Mary  A. ;  (3),  James  ;  (4),  Bridget ;  (5),  Elizabeth  M  ; 
(6),  Thomas  F. ;  (7),  Bartholomew  T. ;  (8),  Margaret  T. 
Of  these,  Elizabeth  M.  is  principal  of  the  Davenport 
school,  New  Haven.  Thomas  F.  became  a  priest,  and  died 
at  Windsor  Locks,  Ct.  John  G.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
attended  the  schools  of  Rose  Toole,  Patrick  Morrisey  and 
Amos  Smith,  in  New  Haven,  and  subsequently  learned 
the  trade  of  marble  cutter.  Early  acquiring  a  taste  for 
military  knowledge,  he  became  a  member  of  the  famous 
Emmet  Guard,  of  New  Haven,  an  organization  that 
furnished  many  officers  to  the  army  of  the  Union.  He 
enlisted  in  Company  C,  Ninth  regiment,  Aug.  20,  1861 ; 
was  mustered  as  first  lieutenant,  Oct.  30,  that  year,  and 
was  promoted  captain  of  the  company,  April  15,  1862. 
Upon  the  consolidation  of  the  regiment  into  the  Ninth 
battalion,  in  Oct.,  1864,  he  being  the  senior  captain  was 

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338    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

given  command  of  the  latter.  He  was  promoted  lieu- 
tenant-colonel, Dec.  i,  1864,  and  was  mustered  out  with 
the  battalion  in  Aug.,  1865.  He  participated  with  the 
Ninth  in  many  important  events  of  the  Civil  war,  and 
proved  himself  a  very  superior  officer.  Since  the  war, 
he  has  been  vice-president  of  the  Nineteenth  Army  Corps 
Association  and  was  selected  by  the  executive  committee 
to  present  the  testimonials  of  the  Association,  on  the 
demise  of  Gen.  Phil.  Sheridan  and  Gen.  W.  'H.  Emory, 
to  their  widows.  In  1866,  Col.  Healy,  in  company  with 
Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien  and  Lieut.  Joseph  H.  Lawler,  of 
the  Ninth,  C.  V.,  went  to  Ireland,  in  connection  with  the 
Fenian  movement,  in  which  many  other  veteran  officers 
of  the  Union  army  participated.  Col.  Healy  was  arrested 
in  the  city  of  Limerick  and  was  a  prisoner  in  the  hands 
of  the  British  for  six  months.  On  his  return  to  New 
Haven,  he  was  given  a  great  ovation.  He  was  subse- 
quently Assistant  Adjutant-General,  with  the  rank  of 
Colonel,  on  the  staff  of  Gov.  Luzon  B.  Morris,  of  Con- 
necticut, and  has  always  enjoyed  a  high  degree  of  popu- 
larity in  the  state.  Col.  Healy  is  a  member  of  the  Mili- 
tary Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  of  the  Army  and  Navy 
Club  of  Connecticut,  of  Admiral  Foote  Post,  G.  A.  R., 
New  Haven,  and  of  the  Second  Company  of  the  Gover- 
nor's Foot  Guard.  Since  the  Civil  War  closed,  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  New  Haven  board  of  aldermen, 
for  two  years,  and  superintendent  of  gas  and  lamps,  in 
that  city,  for  six  years.  He  resigned  this  latter  position  to 
become  superintendent  of  the  folding  department  of  the 
U.  S.  House  of  Representatives,  occupying  the  position 
four  years.  He  is  at  present  engaged  in  the  insurance 
business.  Still  vigorous  and  active,  he  undertook,  upon 
the  outbreak  of  our  recent  war  with  Spain,  to  organize 
an  Irish  regiment.  He  communicated  with  the  Governor 
of  Connecticut  and  received  much  encouragement.  The 
New  Haven  Leader,  May  3,  1898,  stated  that  "As  the 
result  of  a  visit  to  Governor  Cooke  at  Hartford  last  week 


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Colonel  John  G.  Healy  is  accepting  applications  from 
men  who  want  to  enlist  in  a  regiment  which  the  colonel 
intends  to  organize.  Within  a  day  or  two  Colonel  Healy 
expects  to  receive  from  Adjutant-General  Haven  author- 
ity to  enlist  men  for  his  regiment.  Already,  it  is  stated, 
that,  without  the  receipt  of  authority  from  the  Governor, 
nearly  fifty  men  have  applied  to  the  colonel  to  be  num- 
bered among  the  volunteers  which  the  colonel  will  turn 
over  to  the  service  of  the  state  if  they  are  needed.  When 
the  war  preparations  begun  Colonel  Healy  formally  of- 
fered his  services  to  the  governor  and  promised  to  raise  a 
regiment  of  volunteers  to  be  composed  of  Irish-Ameri- 
cans or  men  of  Irish  extraction.  Until  last  week  the 
colonel  has  had  no  further  communication  with  the  Gov- 
ernor about  the  proposed  Irishmen's  regiment.  Last 
Wednesday  he  went  to  Hartford  and  had  a  long  talk  with 
the  Governor  and  with  Colonel  Landers,  the  assistant 
adjutant-general.  Adjutant  General  Haven  was  in  Wash- 
ington on  that  day  and  it  was  impossible  for  Colonel 
Healy  to  see  him.  When  Colonel  Healy  explained  his 
purpose  to  the  Governor  the  latter  expressed  pleasure  at 
the  proposition  and  gave  his  unqualified  approval  of  it. 
The  situation  with  regard  to  the  proposed  organization 
was  gone  over  with  both  the  Governor  and  Colonel 
Landers,  the  latter  also  approving  of  the  plan.  Colonel 
Healy's  idea  was  to  have  the  proposed  regiment  organ- 
ized and  in  readiness  to  respond  to  a  call  when  its  turn 
came  after  the  National  Guard  had  been  given  its  chance. 
He  told  Colonel  Landers  that  he  could  furnish  a  fighting 
regiment  and  have  it  ready  to  take  the  field  when  the 
call  came.  The  Governor  practically  told  him  to  go 
ahead  and  get  ready  for  it.  So  much  assurance  was  given 
him  that  his  plan  was  approved  that  Colonel  Healy  is 
confident  that  he  will  receive  authority  to  proceed  with 
the  enlistment  within  a  short  time.  Yesterday  he  wrote 
to  Colonel  Landers  asking  for  the  desired  authority  and 
expects  to  hear  favorably  from  the  assistant  adjutant  gen- 


34o  NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

eral  shortly.  Upon  receipt  of  it  he  will  detail  men  with 
authority  to  enlist  men  and  have  them  constantly  on  hand 
for  that  purpose.  At  present  applications  are  being  made 
personally  to  him.  A  number  of  men  have  offered  their 
services  to  take  applications  for  enlistment.  Colonel 
Healy  said  this  morning  that  his  design  was  to  recruit 
three  companies  in  New  Haven  and  have  the  other  com- 
panies from  different  cities.  He  has  already  been  in  com- 
munication with  prominent  Irish-Americans  in  Water- 
bury,  Bridgeport,  Naugatuck,  Middletown  and  other 
places,  who  want  to  enlist  companies  in  their  respective 
cities  to  join  Colonel  Healy's  proposed  regiment.  As 
soon  as  the  desired  authority  is  received  Colonel  Healy 
will  notify  the  men  to  proceed  to  accept  enlistments.  He 
says  men  in  all  parts  of  the  state  will  be  given  an  oppor- 
tunity to  enlist."  Later,  a  recruiting  office  was  opened 
at  99  Congress  Ave.,  New  Haven,  with  Capt.  J.  H.  Mc- 
Govern  in  charge,  and  another  at  240  Hamilton  st.,  in 
charge  of  James  H.  Cannon.  At  one  time,  five  compa- 
nies were  in  process  of  being  recruited.  The  unexpectedly 
brief  duration  of  the  war,  however,  rendered  the  pro- 
jected regiment  unnecessary.  Speaking  of  his  services 
in  the  Civil  war,  Dr.  Rollin  McNeil,  of  New  Haven,  pays 
the  following  tribute  to  Col.  Healy:  "As  surgeon 
of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  Veteran  Volunteers,  I  was 
thrown  into  most  intimate  relations  with  him,  and  the 
friendship  that  resulted  has  continued  during  all  the  long 
years  since  the  Civil  War.  His  bravery  in  the  field  is  a 
matter  of  record.  The  day  Sheridan  made  his  famous 
ride,  Col.  Healy  was  in  the  forefront,  the  colors  in  his 
hand.  I  don't  think  he  ever  knew  the  meaning  of  the 
word  'fear.'  He  led  his  men  in  battle ;  he  cared  for 
them  in  camp,  and  on  the  march,  with  a  solicitude  that 
won  their  affection.  A  thorough  disciplinarian,  when 
discipline  was  necessary,  he  stood  always  for  the 
rights  of  his  men,  and  the  honor  of  the  command.  I  can 
recall  nothing  but  pleasant  memories  of  the  days  when 


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we  marched  and  camped  together.  We  were  boys  then ; 
we  are  gray-haired  veterans  now,  yet  we  still  touch 
elbows  with  the  few  old  comrades — noble  fellows  all  of 
them — who  are  still  this  side  of  the  great  divide,  proud  of 
our  regiment,,  proud  of  its  record,  drawing  closer  to  each 
other  as  our  ranks  grow  thinner,  keeping  alive  the  old 
friendship  and  the  old  enthusiasms.  And  so  may  it  be  to 
the  end." 

HEALY,  PRIN.  MUS.  JOHN  E.,  a  native  of  New 
Haven,  Ct,  born  Aug.  16,  1847;  son  °f  Patrick  and 
Julia  Healy  who  were  from  Dundalk,  County  Louth, 
Ireland.  John  E.,  enlisted  in  the  Ninth,  Sept.  20,  1861, 
as  a  drummer  boy  of  Company  B,  became  drum  major  in 
1862,  and  was  promoted  to  be  principal  musician  of  the 
regiment,  Jan.  I,  1863.  His  entire  period  of  service,  with 
regiment  and  battalion,  covered  three  years  and  eleven 
months.  He  was  mustered  out  Aug.  3,  1865.  After  the 
war,  he  entered  a  commercial  college  from  which,  in  due 
time,  he  graduated  and  engaged  in  business  pursuits.  He 
interested  himself  in  medicines,,  traveling  and  lecturing 
in  that  connection  for  a  number  of  years.  He  also  or- 
ganized "Healy's  Mirror  of  Ireland"  and  toured  the 
country,  with  the  same,  four  years.  He  subsequently  or- 
ganized the  Hibernian  Minstrels  and  for  six  years  visited 
the  principal  cities  with  his  troupe.  He  married  Belle 
Tracy  of  Rockland,  Me.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Healy  have  had 
five  children, — four  sons  and  one  daughter.  He  is  now 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  New  Haven. 

HENNESSEY,  CAPT.  JAMES  P.,  born  in  County 
Cork,  Ireland,  1827.  He  came  to  this  country  about  1847, 
and  settled  in  New  Haven,  where  he  wedded  Miss  Cath- 
erine Walsh.  He  enlisted  into  the  Ninth,  Sept.  5,  1861, 
and  was  mustered  captain  of  Company  E,  Oct.  30,  that 
year.  He  resigned  Oct.  25,  1862,  and  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. One  of  his  sons,  Richard  Hennessey,  was  a 
drummer  boy  in  the  company,  enlisting  Sept.  4,  1861, 


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when  aged  but  n  years,  and  10  months.  This  was  under 
the  age  prescribed,  but  the  matter  was  satisfactorily  ar- 
ranged. Richard,  like  his  father,  served  with  fidelity  and 
courage.  Capt.  Hennessey,  was  survived  by  his  widow 
and  six  children,  the  latter  being  Richard,  already  men- 
tioned, John,  Charlotte,  James,  Andrew,  and  Theresa. 
James  was,  for  a  number  of  years,  brigade  chief  trump- 
eter in  the  National  Guard  of  Connecticut.  The  Rev.  F. 
J.  Hennessey,  a  grandson  of  Capt.  Hennessey,  is  a  priest 
of  the  Catholic  diocese  of  Hartford. 

KATTENSTROTH,  ADJUTANT  HENRY.  (See 
roster). 

KENNEDY,  LIEUT.  MICHAEL,  of  Company  A. 
(See  roster). 

LAWLER,  LIEUT.  JAMES,  had  been  a  member  of 
the  Emmet  Guard,  New  Haven ;  enlisted  in  Company  E, 
of  the  Ninth,  as  a  private,  Oct.  4,  1861  ;  was  mustered 
Oct.  12,  1861 ;  appointed  commissary-sergeant  of  the  reg- 
iment, Oct.  12,  1861  ;  promoted  second  lieutenant  of 
Company  C,  Oct.  19,  1863 ;  was  discharged,  Oct.  26, 
1864,  m's  term  of  service  having  expired. 

LAWLER,  LIEUT.  JOSEPH  H.,  born  in  Ireland. 
He  enlisted  from  Norwich,  Ct,  in  the  Ninth  regiment,  C. 
V.,  Sept.  18,  1861,  and  was  mustered,  as  a  corporal  of 
Company  H,  Oct.  30,  that  year.  He  was  promoted  ser- 
geant, May  26,  1862;  first  sergeant,  Sept.  i,  the  same 
year,  and  second  lieutenant,  May  27,  1863.  On  Oct.  12, 
1864,  he  was  transferred  to  Company  C,  Ninth  Battalion, 
C.  V.,  and  was  promoted  first  lieutenant,  Dec.  16,  1864. 
He  was  mustered  out,  Aug.  3,  1865.  After  the  war,  he 
became  a  captain  of  police  in  New  Orleans,  La.  Like 
other  veteran  officers  of  the  Ninth,  he  went  to  Ireland  in 
connection  with  the  Fenian  movement,  and  was  captured 
by  the  British  in  Limerick.  He  subsequently  returned 
to  the  United  States,  and  died  at  New  Orleans  in  1893. 


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LAWLER,  LIEUT.  THOMAS  C,  a  native  of  Ireland. 
He  was  of  Norwich,  Ct.,  and  early  in  the  Civil  War  en- 
listed in  Rifle  Company  A,  Second  regiment,  C.  V.,  be- 
coming sergeant.  Subsequently,  he  enlisted  in  Company 
H,  Ninth  regiment,  and  was  commissioned  first  lieuten- 
ant of  the  same.  He  resigned,  Feb.  25,  1862,  and  was 
honorably  discharged.  After  the  war,  he  located  in 
Lynn,  Mass.,  where  he  died.  He  was  married  and  had 
six  children. 

LEE,  CAPT.  WILLIAM  A.,  of  Company  H  of  the 
regiment,,  and  Company  C  of  the  battalion.    (See  roster). 
LINES,  ASS'T  SURG.  JAIRUS  F.    (See  roster). 

McCARTEN,  CAPT.  MICHAEL,  a  native  of  the 
County  Leitrim,  Ireland.  He  came  to  America  in  1848, 
and  settled  in  New  Haven,  Ct.  He  enlisted  into  the  Ninth 
regiment  on  Aug.  20,  1861,  and  was  mustered  as  captain 
of  Company  C,  Oct.  30.  He  resigned  in  April,  1862,  owing 
to  the  serious  illness  of  his  wife,  and  was  honorably  dis- 
charged from  the  service.  He  was  an  able  officer  and 
his  resignation  was  much  regretted  by  the  regiment. 

McCUSKER,  LIEUT.  JOHN,  born  within  a  few 
miles  of  Enniskillen,  Ireland,  1823 ;  arrived  in  this 
country  about  1849.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Emmet 
Guard,  New  Haven.  On  Oct.  16,  1861,  he  enlisted  in 
Company  B,  of  the  Ninth,  was  mustered  the  next  day  as 
first  sergeant  of  the  company,  and  was  promoted  to  a 
lieutenancy  June  I,  1862.  He  resigned  Oct.  29,  1862. 
Lieut.  McCusker  died  in  May,  1885. 

McKENNA,  LIEUT.  HENRY,  born  in  County 
Cavan,  Ireland,  1831 ;  came  to  this  country,  1846;  was  a 
dentist  by  profession.  He  enlisted  into  the  Ninth,  Sept. 
4,  1861,  and  was  mustered  first  sergeant,  Sept.  27,  the 
same  year.  He  was  promoted  to  be  second  lieutenant  of 
Company  C,  April  10,  1862.  He  died  on  Sept.  24,  of  the 
latter  year  at  Camp  Parapet,  La.  His  body  was  brought 
home  to  New  Haven,  interment  taking  place  at  St.  Ber- 
nard's cemetery  with  due  military  honors. 


344    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

McKEON,  LIEUT.  FRANCIS,  a  native  of  the 
County  Cavan,  Ireland,  born  Dec.  28,  1834;  came  to  this 
country  about  1852.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth,  Sept.  5, 
1861,  was  second  lieutenant  of  Company  E,  and  was  pro- 
moted to  first  lieutenant  Feb.  25,  1863.  He  was  honor- 
ably discharged  Oct.  26,  1864.  His  wife's  maiden  name 
was  Mary  Reilly.  He  died  in  Branford,  Ct.,  July,  1888. 

McNEIL,  SURG.  ROLLIN,  was  born  in  New 
Haven,  Ct.,  July  8,  1837;  son  °f  Henry  and  Augusta 
Caroline  (English)  McNeil.  He  graduated  from  the 
medical  department  of  Yale  University  in  1862 ;  enlisted 
as  assistant  surgeon  in  the  Ninth,  June  16,  1864;  was 
mustered,  June  24,  that  year,  and  was  honorably  dis- 
charged Oct.  26,  1864.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  bat- 
talion, C.  V.,  Nov.  18,  1864,  as  surgeon  of  the  same  and 
was  mustered  Jan.  TO,  1865.  During  this  latter  term  of 
service,  he  was  sanitary  inspector  of  the  city  of  Savannah, 
Ga.,  1865 ;  surgeon  at  Camp  Distribution,  Savannah,  and 
post  surgeon  at  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  He  was  mustered 
out,  Aug.  3,  1865.  After  his  muster  out,  he  practiced  his 
profession  at  Cross  River,  N.  Y.,  until  1869,  and  since 
that  time  has  practiced  in  New  Haven,  Ct.  Dr.  McNeil 
is  a  companion  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion,  of  the  United  States,  commandery  of  the  State 
of  New  York;  and  is  also  a  member  of  Admiral  Foote 
Post,  No.  17,  G.  A.  R.,  of  the  State  of  Connecticut.  His 
wife's  maiden  name  was  Esther  Mary  Keeler.  Their 
children  were  Archibald,  Mary  and  Henry.  Of  these, 
Mary  died  in  1872,  and  Henry  in  1883.  Archibald  is 
living  and  is  practicing  medicine  in  New  Haven. 

MILLINGTON,  LIEUT.  THOMAS,  of  Company 
K.  (See  roster). 

MOREHOUSE,  LIEUT.  GEORGE  N.,  of  Company 
D.  (See  roster). 

MULLEN,  CHAPLAIN  DANIEL,  born  in  Bally- 
mena,  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  1837;  died  in  Hartford, 


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Ct.,  1878.  He  attended  school  in  his  native  town,  and 
came  to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  17  years.  He  en- 
tered St.  Charles  College,  Maryland,  where  he  continued 
his  studies.  In  1859,  ne  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood. 
He  became  a  curate  at  St.  Peter's  church,  Hartford,  and 
later  in  Waterbury,  Ct.,,  where  he  was  assistant  to  the 
Rev.  Thomas  F.  Hendricken,  who  was  afterwards  bishop 
of  the  diocese  of  Providence,  R.  I.  Father  Mullen  was 
made  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's,  Winsted,  Ct.,  in  1860. 
Actuated  by  a  patriotic  spirit,  he  was  devoted  to  the  pres- 
ervation of  the  Union,  and  was  made  chaplain  of  the 
Ninth.  He  enlisted  as  such,  Nov.  17,  1861,  and  was 
greatly  esteemed  by  the  regiment.  It  is  recalled  that 
while  the  Ninth  was  at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  in  June,  1862, 
Chaplain  Mullen  distributed  copies  of  The  Soldier's  Man- 
ual, or  prayer  book,  to  officers  and  men.  The  work  con- 
tained spiritual  instructions  for  soldiers.  The  Annals  of 
Winchester,  Ct.,  state  that  "Father  Mullen  was  a  man  of 
literary  culture  and  earnest  patriotism."  Owing  to  ill- 
health  contracted  in  the  service,  he  was  obliged  to  resign 
the  chaplaincy  of  the  regiment,  Aug.  26,  1862,  and  was 
succeeded  as  chaplain  by  the  Rev.  Father  Leo  (Rizzo)  da 
Saracena,  O.S.F.  Upon  improving  in  health  after  his  re- 
turn from  the  front,  Father  Mullen  had  charge  of  the 
Catholic  church  at  Valley  Falls,  R.  I.  He  subsequently 
became,  in  1868,  pastor  at  Norwich,  Ct.  His  obsequies 
took  place  in  St.  Patrick's  church,  Hartford,  the  celebrant 
of  the  Mass  being  the  Very  Rev.  James  Hughes.  The 
eulogy  was  delivered  by  Bishop  O'Reilly  of  Springfield, 
Mass.,  and  the  absolution  was  pronounced  by  Bishop 
Galberry,  of  Hartford. 

MULLEN,  SERGT.  JAMES  T.,  a  native  of  New 
Haven,  Ct.  He  enlisted  in  Company  C,  of  the  Ninth,  Sept. 
n,  1861,  and  was  a  sergeant  in  the  company.  He  was 
honorably  discharged,  Dec.  27,  1862,  owing  to  sickness. 
Subsequently,  he  became  a  lieutenant  of  police  in  New 
Haven,  and  later  engaged  in  business  pursuits.  He  was 


346     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

a  fire  commissioner  of  New  Haven  for  thirteen  years ; 
president  of  that  board  for  several  years ;  and  was  also  a 
member  of  the  board  of  aldermen.  He  married  a  sister 
of  the  Hon.  James  P.  Pigott  of  New  Haven.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  was  the 
first  supreme  knight ;  and  had  also  belonged  to  the  Sars- 
field  Guards  and  to  the  Knights  of  St.  Patrick.  He  died 
a  few  years  ago. 

MULLINS,  LIEUT.  MICHAEL,  a  native  of  Lim- 
erick, Ireland,  born  April  20,  1835 ;  came  to  America  in 
1 856,  and  located  in  New  Haven.  Ct.  He  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany E,  of  the  Ninth,  Sept.  22,  1861,  and  was  mustered  as 
sergeant.  He  was  appointed  sergeant-major  of  the  regi- 
ment, Dec.  27,  1862,  and  was  promoted  to  be  second 
lieutenant  of  Company  E,  May,  1863,  and  to  be  first 
lieutenant  of  Company  K,  May,  1864.  On  Oct.  12,  1864, 
he  was  transferred  to  Company  B,  of  the  Ninth  Battalion, 
and  was  honorably  discharged,  Nov.  27,  that  year.  In 
Feb.,  1860,  he  was  married  at  New  Haven  to  Miss 
Bridget  Russell.  Three  children  were  born  to  them, 
viz :  John,  Ellen,  and  James,  all  of  whom  are  dead.  His 
widow  resides  in  New  Haven. 

O'BRIEN,  CAPT.  LAWRENCE,  born  in  Cahir, 
County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  April  7,  1842 ;  son  of  Edward 
and  Elizabeth  (Hammel)  O'Brien.  When  ten  years  of  age, 
he  was  brought  to  this  country  by  his  parents.  They 
finally  settled  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  where  Lawrence  at- 
tended St.  Patrick's  parochial  school.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  bricklayer  and  was  employed  thereat  when  the 
Civil  War  broke  out.  He  had  long  been  interested  in 
military  matters  and  was  an  active  member  of  the  Emmet 
Guard,  of  New  Haven.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regi- 
ment Aug.  30,  1861,  assisted  Capt.  Patrick  Garvey  in 
organizing  Company  B,  and  was  commissioned  first 
lieutenant  of  the  company.  He  was  a  splendid  officer, 
and  was  promoted  captain  of  Company  D,  Oct.  15,  1862. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  347 

He  participated  with  his  regiment  in  all  the  movements  of 
the  latter,  and  possessed  rare  tact,  judgment  and  ability. 
He  was  honorably  discharged  Oct.  26,  1864,  his  term  of 
service  having  expired.  He  was  prominently  identified 
with  the  Fenian  movement  and  in  1867,  went  to  Ireland, 
like  many  other  gallant  Union  officers,  in  furtherance 
of  the  cause  of  Irish  freedom.  He  was  captured  by  the 
enemy,  confined  in  Clonmel  prison  and,  later,  astonished 
the  British  by  escaping  therefrom.  The  Crofrut-Morris 
work  speaks  of  Capt.  O'Brien  as  "a  brave  and  efficient 
officer,  and  fertile  in  expedients."  He  was  married  in 
Norwich.  Ct.,  Feb.,  1869,  to  Catherine  Devine,  a  native 
of  that  place.  They  had  six  children.  Mrs.  O'Brien  died 
in  1890. 

O'KEEFE,  LIEUT.  WILLIAM,  born  in  Rathcormac, 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  May  22,  1839;  attended  the  na- 
tional schools  in  his  native  land;  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1853,  and  settled  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  where  he 
continued  his  studies.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  regi- 
ment, C.  V.,  Sept.  15,  1861,  and  was  mustered  as  a  ser- 
geant of  Company  B,  Oct.  4,  that  year.  He  was  pro- 
moted first  sergeant  at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  June  I,  1862, 
and  was  made  second  lieutenant  of  his  company,  Feb.  7, 
1863,  at  New  Orleans,  La.  He  served  as  such  until  mus- 
tered out  in  Oct.,  1864.  He  identified  himself  with  the 
Fenian  movement,  and  went  to  Ireland  in  connection 
with  that  movement  to  assist  in  establishing  the  inde- 
pendence of  Ireland.  But  the  time  had  not  yet  come. 
He  returned  to  the  United  States.  In  1869,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  a  sister  of  Capt.  O'Brien  of  New  Haven.  Lieut, 
and  Mrs.  O'Keefe  have  had  14  children,  six  of  whom  are 
now  living.  They  were  given  an  excellent  education  and 
two  of  them  graduated  from  Yale.  In  1872,  Lieut. 
O'Keefe  was  appointed  a  patrolman  on  the  New  Haven 
police  force  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  nine  years. 
He  was  then  promoted  to  roundsman  and,  in  1882,  was 
made  a  lieutenant  of  police.  In  1891,  he  was  promoted 


348    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

to  a  police  captaincy  in  which  position  he  is  at  present 
serving. 

O'SULLIVAN,  LIEUT.  DANIEL,  born  in  Kenmare, 
County  Kerry,  Ireland,  June  14,  1836;  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1856;  resided  in  Jewett  City,  Ct.,  (Gris- 
wold),  from  the  time  of  his  arrival  until  he  enlisted  in  the 
Ninth,  Sept.  13,  1861.  He  was  mustered  as  first  sergeant 
of  Company  H,  was  promoted  to  be  second  lieuten- 
ant of  Company  K,  Aug.  15,  1862,  and  was  promoted  to 
be  first  lieutenant  shortly  after.  He  resigned,  Dec.  2, 
1863,  and  was  honorably  discharged.  Immediately  after 
leaving  the  service,  he  was  appointed  inspector  of  the 
bureau  of  plantations  and  abandoned  lands,  with  head- 
quarters in  New  Orleans,  La.,  and  later  had  charge  of 
ocean  and  river  transportation,  in  the  quartermaster's  de- 
partment. He  then  joined  a  battalion  of  engineers  and 
remained  with  the  same  until  it  was  mustered  out,  at 
Brownsville,  Texas,  in  June,  1866.  During  his  term 
with  the  engineers,  he  served  under  Gen.  A.  J.  Smith  in 
Arkansas,  Missouri,  Tennessee,  Alabama,  Louisiana,  and 
Texas.  After  being  mustered  out,  at  Brownsville,  he 
went  to  Galveston,  Texas,  where  he  became  clerk  in  the 
revenue  and  quartermaster's  departments.  He  was  af- 
terwards sent  to  Fort  Stockton  to  superintend  the  con- 
struction of  military  works.  Lieut.  O'Sullivan  went  to 
Kansas,  left  there  in  1869  and  went  to  San  Antonio, 
Texas,  where  with  four  others  he  purchased  a  four-mule 
team,  hired  a  Mexican  driver,  and  started  on  the  most 
perilous  trip  he  had  yet  undertaken. .  It  was  no  less  than 
a  ride  through  Texas,  New  Mexico,  Arizona  and  Cali- 
fornia. The  Comanches  were  out  in  Texas,  the 
Apaches  in  New  Mexico  and  Arizona,  and  the  party  un- 
derwent many  hardships.  They  had  to  be  ever  on  the 
alert,  for  the  Indians  were  on  the  war  path.  They  got 
to  San  Barnadino,  Cal.,  minus  the  four  mules  and  wagon, 
but  still  had  their  riding  horses  and  arms,  but  very  little 
money.  Lieut.  O'Sullivan  went  to  San  Francisco  and 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  349 

was  immediately  employed  in  the  Mare  Island  Navy 
Yard,  where  he  remained  one  year.  He  then  went  to 
Oregon  and  Washington  and  then  back  to  Nevada  where 
he  did  some  mining  work.  He  returned  to  Texas  and 
remained  there  until  1875,  being  occupied  while  there  as 
a  U.  S.  marshal  and  sheriff.  He  went  to  Colorado  in 
1876  and  was  employed  in  the  engineering  department  of 
the  A.  T.  &  S.  F.  Railroad.  Was  in  Leadville  in  1878, 
went  to  New  Mexico  and  from  there  to  Arizona  again ; 
was  in  Tombstone  in  its  most  turbulent  time.  From 
Arizona  he  again  went  to  California,  and  was  employed 
by  a  mining  firm  to  report  on  mining  property  in  Mex- 
ico ;  lived  in  Mexico  about  two  years,  proceeded  to  Cen- 
tral America  and  from  there  to  Chili  and  Peru.  He  re- 
turned to  Arizona  and  worked  for  the  government  in  the 
construction  of  military  posts,  for  several  years,  a  portion 
of  the  time  in  the  Interior  Department,  and  another  por- 
tion in  the  Quartermaster's  Department.  He  was  at  the 
San  Carlos  agency  when  the  Apaches  broke  out.  He 
became  well  acquainted  with  the  canons  of  the  Colorado, 
and  served  as  guide  for  exploring  parties  in  that  region. 
He  made  some  money  from  the  sale  of  mining  claims, 
took  two  voyages  to  the  Sandwich  Islands,  and  made 
one  trip  to  Sitka,  Alaska.  He  also  journeyed  to  Ven- 
ezuela and  stayed  in  Caracas  several  months.  He  re- 
turned to  Connecticut,  in  1893,  after  an  absence  of  thirty- 
two  years. 

PALMER,  LIEUT.  CHARLES  S.,  of  Company  I. 
(See  roster). 

PAYNE,  CAPT.  ADDIS  E.,  of  Company  F.  (See 
roster). 

REILLY,  SERGT.  PHILIP,  born  in  County  Cavan, 
Ireland,  March  25,  1841 ;  came  to  the  United  States,  1851. 
He  enlisted  from  New  Haven,  in  Company  E,  of  the 
Ninth,  Sept.  4,  1861,  and  was  mustered  corporal.  He 
was  promoted  to  sergeant  Jan.  i,  1862,  was  color  ser- 


35o     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTR  Y. 

geant  in  March,  1863,  and  was  transferred  to  Company 
B,  Ninth  Battalion,  Oct.  12,  1864.  At  the  battle  of  Cedar 
Creek,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1864,  he  was  wounded,  and  was  hon- 
orably discharged  Feb.  14,  1865. 

RIZZO,  CHAPLAIN  LEO,  born  in  Calabria,  Italy, 
about  1832  ;  succeeded  the  Rev.  Daniel  Mullen  as  chaplain 
of  the  Ninth;  enlisted,  July  15,  1864;  mustered,  the  same 
day;  honorably  discharged,  Oct.  26,  1864.  His  family 
name  was  Rizzo.  He  became  a  Catholic  priest  of  the 
Franciscan  Order  and  was  known  in  religion  as  the  Very 
Rev.  Leo  da  Saracena,  O.  S.  F.  By  the  officers  and  men 
of  the  Ninth  he  was  popularly  known  as  "Father  Leo." 
Upon  his  arrival  in  this  country,  he  was  assigned  to  the 
diocese  of  Hartford,  Ct.,  and  was  made  a  curate  of  St. 
Mary's  church,  New  Haven,  by  Bishop  McFarland. 
"Many  will  remember,"  says  an  obituary  notice,  "the  en- 
thusiastic and  heartfelt  welcome  which  the  remnant  of  the 
regiment  tendered  the  chaplain  who  came  to  Hartford 
on  Battle  Flag  Day  not  to  ride  in  a  carriage,  an  honor 
to  which  his  station  entitled  him,  but  to  stand,  where  he 
always  stood,  among  the  men,  to  march  with  them 
through  the  streets  of  the  city  as  he  had  marched  with 
them  through  the  fields  of  battle"  Upon  his  return  from 
the  war,  Father  Leo  was  sent  to  build  up  the  Winsted, 
Ct.,  parish  and  did  his  work  very  thoroughly.  His 
obsequies  were  of  a  very  impressive  nature  and  took 
place  at  St.  Joseph's  church,  Winsted,  Nov.  6,  1897. 
The  services  began  at  10  a.  m.,  with  a  solemn  Pontifical 
Mass.  The  office  of  the  dead  was  chanted  by  the  Rev. 
Father  Murphy  of  Manchester,  assisted  by  the  Rev. 
Fathers  McElroy  of  Derby,  Quinn  of  Collinsville  and 
Lynch  of  Waterbury.  Bishop  Tierney,  of  Hartford,  cele- 
brated Mass  and  was  assisted  by  deacons  of  honor,  Rev. 
T.  W.  Broderick  of  Hartford,  and  Rev.  Father  Kennedy 
of  Norwich ;  deacon  of  the  Mass,  Rev.  W.  J.  Slocum  of 
Waterbury ;  sub  deacon  of  the  Mass,  Rev.  Luke  Fitzsim- 
mons,  of  New  Hartford;  master  of  ceremonies,  Rev. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  351 

Father  McGurk,  Hartford,  and  Rev.  T.  J.  Finn  of  Bir- 
mingham as  censor  bearer.  In  compliance  with  the  wish 
of  Father  Leo  there  was  no  funeral  sermon.  Bishop  Bev- 
ins  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  administered  absolution  in  the 
church  and  the  Very  Rev.  Father  Anacletus  of  New  York 
gave  absolution  at  the  grave.  The  honorary  pall  bearers 
representing  the  Ninth  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers, 
of  which  Father  Leo  was  chaplain,  were  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon 
of  Bridgeport,  Col.  John  G.  Healy,  Capt.  Michael  Mc- 
Carten  and  Lieut.  William  O'Keefe  of  New  Haven, 
Sergt.  Michael  Cronan  and  Corp.  M.  P.  Coen  of  Nauga- 
tuck,  and  Color  Bearer  Frank  Lynch  of  Meriden.  In- 
stead of  bringing  flowers  and  other  decorations  as  a  tri- 
bute, the  Ninth  Regiment  association  brought  a  beauti- 
ful silk  flag  of  regulation  size,  with  the  inscription  printed 
thereon  in  golden  letters,  "Veterans  of  the  Ninth  Regi- 
ment, Connecticut  Volunteers."  The  flag  was  mounted 
upon  a  sectional  pole  of  oak  surmounted  by  an  eagle  and 
tassels  and  was  presented  with  a  touching  address  by  Col. 
John  G.  Healy  of  New  Haven  in  behalf  of  the  regiment. 
It  was  accepted  in  behalf  of  the  Franciscan  order  by 
Father  Anacletus,  ex-provincial  of  the  order,  in  words 
very  fitting  to  the  occasion  and  which  expressed  great 
feeling.  The  honorary  pall  bearers  from  the  Franciscans 
were  the  Very  Rev.  Father  Anacletus,  Rev.  Father  Julius, 
Rev.  Father  McCabe,  Rev.  Father  Daniel,  of  New  York 
city,  Rev.  Father  Pamphilus,  guardian  of  the  Mother 
House  in  Allegany,  N.  Y.,  and  Rev.  Father  Cyprian  of 
Allegany,  N.  Y.  Governor  Cooke  of  Connecticut  walked 
with  the  honorary  pall  bearers.  At  the  grave,  Bugler 
James  F.  McCann,  of  Naugatuck,  sounded  "taps"  in 
honor  of  the  deceased  regimental  chaplain. 

RYAN,  SERGT.  TIMOTHY,  born  in  Ireland;  came 
with  his  parents  to  this  country  at  the  age  of  six  years ; 
located  in  Torrington,  Ct.,  where  he  received  his  early 
education.  At  the  age  of  19,  he  began  the  study  of  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1859.  When  the  Civil 


352    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

War  broke  out,  he  enlisted  in  the  Second  regiment,  C.  V., 
and  served  in  that  command  until  it  was  mustered  out. 
He  then  enlisted  from  Waterbury,  in  the  Ninth  and  was 
mustered  as  first  sergeant,  Oct.  12,  1861,  of  Company  F. 
He  died  July  22,  1862. 

SAWYER,  CAPT.  SILAS  W.,  of  Company  H.  (See 
roster). 

SCOTT,  CAPT.  GARRY  T.,  a  native  of  Middlebury, 
Ct.,  born  Nov.  8, 1837.  He  resided  on  a  farm  until  12  years 
of  age  when  he  entered  a  country  store,  remaining  in  that 
employment  for  about  four  years.  At  the  breaking  out 
of  the  Civil  War,  he  was  a  merchant  in  Plymouth  (Terry- 
ville),  Ct.  He  joined  the  Ninth,  was  made  hospital  stew- 
ard of  the  regiment,  Oct.  30,  1861,  and  held  the  office 
until  the  fall  of  1862.  He  was  made  first  lieutenant  of 
Company  F,  Oct.  19,  1863,  and  succeeded  John  G.  Healy 
as  captain  of  Company  A,  Ninth  battalion,  C.  V.,  being 
promoted  to  that  rank,  Dec.  15,  1864.  He  was  mustered 
out,  Aug.  3,  1865.  He  wedded  Sarah  M.  McNeil  of  New 
Haven.  They  had  five  children;  three  boys  and  two 
girls.  Capt.  Scott  went  to  Nebraska  in  1878,  where  he  is 
successfully  conducting  a  cattle  ranch. 

SHAW,  LIEUT.  JOHN,  of  Company  C.  (See  roster). 

SHERIDAN,  CAPT.  TERENCE,  born  in  County 
Cavan,  Ireland,  1838  ;  son  of  James  and  Nancy  (Galligan) 
Sheridan.  He  came  to  America  when  twelve  years  of  age. 
Eventually  becoming  a  resident  of  New  Haven,  Ct.,  he 
early  took  an  interest  in  military  affairs,  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Emmet  Guard  and  acquired  great  proficiency 
in  drill  and  general  military  tactics.  He  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany E,  of  the  Ninth  regiment,  Sept.  5,  1861,  and  was 
mustered,  Oct.  30,  as  first  lieutenant.  He  succeeded 
James  P.  Hennessey  as  captain  of  the  company,  and  was 
transferred,  Oct.  12,  1864,  to  the  Ninth  Battalion,  as  cap- 
tain of  Company  B,  of  the  latter.  Capt.  Sheridan  was 


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twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Annie  McCaffrey,  a 
native  of  New  Haven ;  and  his  second  Annie  Reilly,  a  na- 
tive of  Ireland. 

STREIT,  LIEUT,  CHRISTIAN,  born  in  Germany, 
May  21,  1822;  served  in  the  German  army;  came  to  the 
United  States,  and  finally  settled   in    New  Haven.     He 
was  an  accomplished  musician,  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Haven  City  Band  and  of  other  organizations  of  the 
kind.     He  served  with  the  Second  Connecticut  regiment 
early  in  the  war,  and  when  that  regiment's  period  of  ser- 
vice had  expired,  he  organized  a  band  for  the  Ninth  regi- 
ment.    He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  as  leader  of  the  band, 
Sept.  14,  1861,  and  was  mustered  Oct.  4.    He  was  pro- 
moted to  be  second  lieutenant  of  Company    F,   July   3, 
1864,  and  was  transferred  to  Company  B,  of  the  Ninth 
battalion,  Oct.  12,  that  year.     He  was  mustered  out  Aug. 
3,  1865.     Lieut.  Streit    died    Nov.  12,  1880,  leaving    a 
wife  and  seven  children.     His  brother,  Simon  Streit,  also 
served  with  the  band  of  the  Ninth,  being  honorably  dis- 
charged Sept.  17,  1862.     He  reenlisted   as   a  private  of 
Company  B.,  June,  1864,  was  promoted  to  corporal  that 
month,  and  was  transferred  to  Company  A,  Ninth  bat- 
talion Oct.  12,  1864.    He  was  mustered  out  Aug.  3,  1865. 
After  the  war,  Simon  enlisted,  Aug.,  1866,  in  the  regular 
army  and  was  assigned  to  Company  K,  Seventeenth  U.  S. 
Infantry,  which  became,  in  Dec.,  1866,  Company  K,  of 
the  Twenty-sixth  Infantry.     He  was  appointed  principal 
musician  of  the  regiment,  Feb.  I,  1869,  was  transferred 
to  the  non-commissioned  staff  of  the  Tenth  U.  S.  Infan- 
try, March  3,  1869,  and  was  honorably  discharged  Aug. 
1 8,  that  year.     He  is  now  a  member  of  the  New  Haven 
police  force. 

WARNER,  CAPT.  DAVID  C,  of  Company  B,  of  the 
battalion.     (See  roster). 

WILLIAMS,  CAPT.  MICHAEL  A.,  born  in  County 
Waterford,  Ireland;  became  a  carriagesmith.     He  mar- 
23 


354    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

ried  Bridget  E.  McGowan.  Their  children  were  Teresa 
B.,  and  William.  Capt  Williams  was  an  ardent  friend  of 
the  Union,  and  early  took  steps  to  organize  a  company 
in  New  Haven  for  the  projected  Colt's  regiment.  He 
enlisted  into  the  Ninth,  Aug.  16,  1861 ;  and  was  mustered 
as  first  lieutenant  Oct.  30,  that  year.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  be  captain  of  Company  A,  April  10,  1862,  and 
served  until  the  expiration  of  the  regiment's  period  of 
service.  He  was  a  good  officer  and  highly  esteemed. 
At  one  period,  he  was  a  representative  from  New  Haven 
in  the  General  Assembly  of  Connecticut. 

WILSON,  LIEUT.  THOMAS  L.,  of   Company  D. 
(See  roster). 

WINSOR,  ASS'T  SURG.  IRA  C.    (See  roster). 


MONUMENT 


TO   THE 


NINTH  REGIMENT,  C.  V., 

BAY  VIEW  PARK,  NEW  HAVEN. 


Dedicatory  Exercises,  Wednesday,  Aug.  5,   1903. 


THE  NINTH'S  MONUMENT. 

DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  MEMORIAL  IN  BAY  VIEW  PARK,  NEW 

HAVEN PREPARATIONS   FOR   DEDICATING  THE   SAME 

THE  EXERCISES  ON  THE  OCCASION FIELD  DAY  OF 

THE  AMERICAN-IRISH   HISTORICAL  SOCIETY LETTER 

FROM  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES LIST 

OF  THE  PRESENT  SURVIVORS  OF  THE  NINTH. 

A  MONUMENT  to  the  Ninth  regiment  stands  in 
Bay  View  Park,  New  Haven.  It  was  unveiled 
and  dedicated  on  Wednesday,  Aug.  5,  1903.  The  exer- 
cises were  of  a  most  impressive  nature.  The  structure 
is  a  noble  memorial,  and  is  located  on  the  site  of  the  first 
encampment  of  the  regiment, — the  rendezvous  of  the 
Ninth  before  the  latter's  departure  for  the  front. 

The  monument  is  over  eighteen  feet  in  height  and 
is  constructed  of  granite  quarried  at  Barre,  Vt.  On  the 
faces  are  bronze  tablets  bearing  the  names  of  the  officers 
and  men  of  the  command  who  lost  their  lives  in  the  ser- 
vice. The  figure  of  a  soldier  surmounts  the  pedestal, 
the  whole  effect  being  eminently  appropriate.  On  the 
base  of  the  monument  are  displayed  the  names  of  leading 
engagements  in  which  the  command  took  part.  Four 
Dahlgren  brass  guns,  fastened  to  bed  plates,  surround 
the  memorial,  and  were  donated  by  the  United  States 
government.  The  builder  of  this  imposing  monument 
was  J.  R.  Maxwell  of  New  Haven.  The  entire  cost  was 
in  the  neighborhood  of  $4,500,  of  which  amount  $1,000 
was  given  by  the  State  of  Connecticut,  the  rest  being 
realized  by  popular  subscription. 

The  monument  was  erected  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Veteran  Association  of  the  Ninth,  the  committee  having 
charge  of  the  work  being : 


THE  NINTH'S  MONUMENT, 

IN  BAY  VIEW  PARK,  NEW  HAVEN. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  357 

Col.  John  G.  Healy,  New  Haven,  President. 
Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gibbon,  Bridgeport,  Chairman. 
Corp.  Michael  P.  Coen,  Naugatuck,  Secretary-Treasurer. 
Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  New  Haven. 
Lieut.  William  Gleeson,  New  Haven. 
Prin.  Mus.  John  E.  Healy,  New  Haven. 

The  committee  performed  its  work  in  the  most  thor- 
ough manner.  It  was  splendidly  assisted  by  the  other 
surviving  veterans  of  the  Ninth  and  by  an  appreciative 
public.  The  committee  decided  to  have  the  dedicatory 
exercises  take  place  Aug.  5,  1903,  the  anniversary  of  the 
battle  of  Baton  Rouge,  in  which  the  Ninth  participated. 

The  dedicatory  programme,  as  arranged,  provided  for 
a  great  military  and  civic  parade  in  which  some  6,000  or 
8,000  men  were  to  take  part,  and  other  appropriate  fea- 
tures. The  following  civilian,  or  citizens,  committee  of 
New  Haven  gentlemen,  was  appointed  to  assist  in  carry- 
ing out  the  programme : 

Hon.  James  P.  Pigott,  Chairman. 

Thomas  M.  Cahill,  M.D.,  Vice-Chairman. 

Hon.  James  P.  Bree,  Secretary. 

James  F.  Brennan,  Treasurer. 

James  E.  McGann. 

M.  F.  Sullivan. 

James  J.  Lawton. 

Edward  Dillon. 

John  E.  McPartland. 

Thomas  I.  Kinney. 

Francis  W.  Foley. 

David  E.  FitzGerald. 

John  J.  Hogan. 

Bernard  E.  Lynch. 

Matthew  W.  Leahy. 

There  was  also  an  aldermanic  committee  appointed, 
consisting  of  Messrs.  Thomas  C.  Bracken,  Phelps  Mont- 


358    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

gomery,  Charles  C.  Spryer,  James  R.  Maxwell  and 
James  E.  Wheeler.  The  G.  A.  R.  committee  con- 
sisted of  Willis  B.  Isbell,  Daniel  B.  Horton  and  Philip 
Ryan. 

Major  John  O.  Tilson,  of  New  Haven,  was  appointed 
chief  marshal  of  the  procession,  the  selection  being  a 
most  excellent  one. 

The  New  Haven  Register,  in  its  issue  of  Sunday,  July 
19,  1903,  stated  that :  "The  monument  is  now  in  place, 
draped  in  canvas,  and  will  remain  hidden  from  the  pub- 
lic eye  until  it  is  unveiled  the  day  set  for  the  dedication, 
Wednesday,  August  5.  It  stands  18  feet,  eight  inches 
high.  The  base  is  eight  feet  square,  18  inches  high,  upon 
which  rests  another  smaller  base  upon  which  are  cut  on 
the  four  sides  the  words,  New  Orleans,  Cedar  Creek, 
Fisher's  Hill  and  Baton  Rouge,  in  each  of  which  places 
the  regiment  distinguished  itself  during  the  war  of  the 
Rebellion.  Then  there  is  a  third,  still  smaller  base.  Then 
on  the  die  is  cut  the  coat-of-arms  of  the  State  of  Connecti- 
cut and  surmounting  the  monument  is  a  life-size  figure 
of  a  soldier  resting  upon  his  gun.  The  entire  work  is 
well  executed  and  is  highly  creditable  to  the  contractor, 
who  is  a  rising  young  local  business  man. 

"The  preparations  for  the  exercises  and  ceremonies 
planned  in  connection  with  the  dedication  are  now  near- 
ing  completion,  but  the  program  in  all  its  details  is  not 
yet  ready  and  will  not  be  for  several  days.  Several  im- 
portant features,  however,  have  been  decided  upon. 
After  the  unveiling  of  the  monument  it  will  be  formally 
turned  over  to  the  city  of  New  Haven  by  some  one  not 
yet  designated,  in  a  short  formal  speech.  Mayor  Studley, 
on  behalf  of  the  city,  will  accept  the  trust.  The  opening 
dedicatory  prayer  will  be  said  by  the  Rev.  J.  J.  Gleeson, 
the  successor  of  the  late  Father  Florence  de  Bruycker  in 
Willimantic,  and  whose  two  brothers,  Lieut.  William 
Gleeson  of  this  city,  and  another  served  with  the  Ninth 
through  the  war. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  359 

"The  orator,,  as  has  been  already  stated,  will  be  the 
Rev.  William  J.  Slocum,  pastor  of  the  Immaculate  Con- 
ception church  of  Waterbury.  The  Rev.  Watson  L. 
Phillips,  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer,  of  this 
city,  will  deliver  the  closing  prayer.  While  in  this  city 
Father  Slocum  will  be  the  guest  of  the  Rev.  P.  M.  Ken- 
nedy. *  *  *  " 

"Major  John  Q.  Tilson,  who  is  to  be  the  grand  marshal 
of  the  day,  has  not  yet  appointed  his  aides,  but  will  do 
so  in  a  lew  days.  Former  Governor  Morgan  G.  Bulke- 
ley,  commander  of  the  Grand  Army  of  Connecticut,  will 
command  the  veterans  in  the  parade  and  has  postponed 
his  trip  to  California  to  attend  the  national  encampment 
of  the  G.  A.  R.  at  San  Francisco  from  August  3,  when  it 
was  planned  to  start,  until  August  8,  so  as  to  attend  the 
dedication  of  the  monument  to  the  Ninth.  The  speak- 
ing at  the  dedication  will  be  confined  to  the  formal  trans- 
fer and  acceptance  of  the  monument  and  the  oration  of 
Father  Slocum.  So  many  distinguished  men  will  be 
present,  among  them  United  States  Senator  Platt,  Gov- 
ernor Chamberlain  and  staff,  ex-Governor  Bulkeley, 
Congressmen  Sperry,  Lilley  and  others,  that  it  would  be 
impossible  to  hear  addresses  from  all  of  them. 

"A  few  days  ago  Colonel  Healy  ordered  of  J.  B.  Cun- 
ningham a  silk  American  flag  for  use  of  the  headquarters 
staff  on  the  occasion  of  the  parade.  It  was  delivered  yes- 
terday, and  when  the  price  was  asked,  Mr.  Cunningham 
generously  said  he  wished  to  donate  it  as  a  gift.  It  is  a 
rich,  heavy,  beautiful  flag  and  a  fine  work  of  art.  The 
gift  is  much  appreciated  by  the  Monument  Association. 
Professor  Benjamin  Jepson  yesterday  sent  a  letter  to 
Colonel  Healy  requesting  the  publication  of  the  fact  that 
a  rehearsal  by  the  600  schoolboys  who  will  sing  at  the 
dedication,  will  be  held  in  the  new  High  School  audi- 
torium on  Monday,  August  2,  at  9  o'clock  a.  m.  After 
the  rehearsal  the  silk  flags  presented  by  Colonel  Cheney 
for  the  occasion  will  be  distributed  among  the  boys.  The 


360    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

contribution  during  the  week  of  $500  to  the  monument 
fund  assures  the  success  of  the  committee  in  the  collec- 
tion of  sufficient  funds,  but  a  considerable  sum  is  still 
needed." 

Wishing  to  give  additional  eclat  to  the  occasion,  the 
American-Irish  Historical  Society  decided  to  have  its 
annual  field  day  in  New  Haven  on  the  date  mentioned. 
The  following  notice  was  sent  to  each  member  of  the  So- 
ciety : 


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AMERICAN-IRISH  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 

(Founded,  1897.     First  President-General,  Rear  Admiral 
R.  W.  Meade,  U.  S.  N.) 


NOTICE  OF  THE  ANNUAL  FIELD  DAY. 


DEAR  SIR  AND  BROTHER  : 

The  annual  Field  Day  of  our  Society  will  take  place  on 
Wednesday,  August  5,  1903,  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Headquarters  will  be  established  at  the  Tontine  Hotel, 
which  faces  the  Yale  University  campus  and  the  city 
green.  A  reception  committee  of  New  Haven  members 
of  the  Society  will  be  in  attendance  during  the  day  and 
evening.  The  city  is  well  supplied  with  hotels,  and  mem- 
bers of  our  organization  who  do  not  engage  rooms  at  the 
Tontine  can  be  accommodated  at  the  Oneco  and  other 
excellent  places. 

The  occasion  will  be  one  of  great  interest  and  enjoy- 
ment. On  the  same  day  and  in  the  same  city  a  battle 
monument  overlooking  Long  Island  sound,  will  be  un- 
veiled and  dedicated  by  the  Ninth  Veteran  Association, 
Connecticut  Volunteer  Infantry.  The  Field  Day  of  the 
Historical  Society  will  form  a  very  important  part  of  the 
exercises  attending  the  dedication  of  this  monument. 

The  Ninth  Connecticut  was  an  Irish  regiment,  organ- 
ized in  1861,  and  served  for  three  years.  It  comprised 
ten  companies,  was  commanded  by  Col.  Thomas  W. 
Cahill,  and  was  attached  to  the  Nineteenth  Army  Corps. 
At  the  expiration  of  its  period  of  service  the  re-enlisted 
veterans  of  the  regiment  were  organized  into  the  Ninth 
battalion,  C.  V.,  and  were  commanded  by  Lieut.  Col. 
John  G.  Healy,  being  mustered  out  in  August,  1865. 


362     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

The  number  of  enlistments  into  the  Ninth,  from  first 
to  last,  was  1,606  officers  and  men.  The  command  par- 
ticipated with  Farragut  and  Butler  in  the  capture  of  New 
Orleans,  was  at  the  battle  of  Baton  Rouge,  served  under 
Sheridan  in  the  Shenandoah  valley,  was  present  at  the 
battles  of  Winchester  and  Fisher's  Hill,  and  in  other 
engagements. 

The  American-Irish  Historical  Society,  wishing  to 
honor  the  survivors  of  this  gallant  regiment,  has  decided 
to  hold  the  annual  field  day  of  the  organization  at  the 
time  and  place  above  mentioned.  The  Regimental  As- 
sociation has  very  kindly  assigned  us  a  prominent  posi- 
tion in  the  dedicatory  programme  and  has  appointed  a 
reception  committee  to  act  in  conjunction  with  a  similar 
committee  from  our  Society. 

The  New  Haven  committee  of  our  organization  con- 
sists of  Col.  John  G.  Healy,  Hon.  James  P.  Bree,  state 
auditor  of  Connecticut ;  Hon.  C.  T.  Driscoll,  Dr.  Stephen 
J.  Maher,  Frank  W.  Foley,  James  A.  Fogarty,  Capt. 
Lawrence  O'Brien,  John  P.  Farrell,  and  several  other 
prominent  gentlemen. 

It  is  believed  that  the  exercises  of  the  day  will  attract 
from  25.000  to  50,000  visitors  to  New  Haven.  The  Sec- 
retary of  the  Navy  may  assign  a  battleship  to  take  part 
in  the  monument  programme.  The  exercises  will  in- 
clude a  civic,  military,  and  naval  parade,  with  the  sailors 
and  marines  from  the  battleship  among  those  in  line. 
There  will  be  singing  by  600  children  of  the  New  Haven 
schools,  public  and  private,  and  many  other  features  of 
interest. 

Among  the  military  organizations  in  line  will  be  the 
Second  Company,  Governor's  Foot  Guard;  the  Second 
Regiment,  C.  N.  G. ;  the  Hibernian  Rifle  Regiment,  and 
other  organizations.  One  division  will  include  the  Grand 
Army  posts  of  Connecticut  and  another  the  Con- 
necticut Knights  of  Columbus.  The  Governor  of  Con- 
necticut has  accepted  an  invitation  to  be  present,  accom- 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  363 

panied  by  his  staff,  and  among  the  other  guests  will  be 
the  president  of  Yale  University,  U.  S.  senators  and  con- 
gressmen, state  officials,  representatives  of  the  Catholic 
and  Protestant  clergy,  and  other  people  of  note. 

In  the  evening,  our  Society  and  its  guests  will  dine  at 
the  Tontine.  There  will  be  a  reception  beginning  at  6.30 
p.  m.  and  lasting  until  8  p.  m.,  when  dinner  will  be  served. 

Tickets  for  the  dinner  will  be  three  dollars  each,  and 
are  now  ready  for  delivery. 

Members  of  the  Society  are  at  liberty  to  bring  personal 
guests.  The  number  is  not  limited. 

Kindly  inform  the  secretary,  upon  receipt  of  this, 
whether  you  intend  to  participate  with  us  in  the  forth- 
coming exercises.  We  hope  to  have  the  pleasure  of  your 
attendance.  Fraternally, 

WILLIAM  McADoo, 

President-General. 
THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY, 

Secretary-General. 

(Humarock  Beach,  Sea  View,1  Mass.) 
June  10,  1903.        

Among  the  special  invitations  sent  out  by  the  Society 
was  one  to  the  Hon.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  president  of 
the  United  States.  The  following  was  his  reply : 

FROM   THE    PRESIDENT    OF   THE   UNITED    STATES. 

OYSTER  BAY,  N.  Y.,  June  29,  1903. 

My  Dear  Mr.  Murray :  I  wish  I  could  be  present 
with  you  on  the  occasion  of  the  annual  field  day  of  the 
American-Irish  Historical  Society. 

From  early  colonial  days  the  Irish  have  been  one  of 
the  great  factors  in  our  growth  as  a  nation.  Naturally, 
I  take  a  particular  interest  in  what  they  have  contributed 
to  our  National  history,  inasmuch  as  I  am  myself  of  part 

'Secretary  Murray's  Summer  residence. 


364    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Irish  blood.  From  the  days  of  Sullivan  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War  to  those  of  Sheridan  in  the  Civil  War,  the 
Irish  element  in  our  country,  conspicuous  everywhere, 
has  been  especially  prominent  in  deeds  of  arms;  and, 
therefore,  it  is  peculiarly  appropriate  that  the  meeting  of 
your  society  this  year  should  be  to  commemorate  the 
record  of  an  Irish  regiment  in  our  great  war. 

Sincerely  yours, 

THEODORE  ROOSEVELT. 

MR.  THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY, 

Secretary-General, 
American-Irish  Historical  Society, 

Humarock  Beach,  Sea  View,  Mass. 

The  following  replies  were  also  received : 


FROM  THE  BARON  SPECK  VON  STERNBURG,  GERMAN  AM- 
BASSADOR TO  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

TERRACE  HALL, 

THE  WEIRS,  N.  H., 

June  28,  1903. 
THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY, 

Secretary-General, 

SEA  VIEW,  MASS. 

DEAR  SIR  :  Your  letter  of  June  26,  in  which  you  in- 
form me  that  the  American-Irish  Historical  Society  will 
hold  its  annual  field  day  in  New  Haven  on  Aug.  5,  has 
just  reached  me. 

Please  express  to  the  Society  my  hearty  thanks  for  the 
courtesy  shown  to  me  by  inviting  me  to  be  their  guest 
on  that  occasion. 

To  my  sincere  regret,  I  shall  not  be  able  to  accept  the 
kind  invitation  as  I  am  leaving  on  a  tour  to  the  west  on 
Aug.  i. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  365 

It  would  have  given  me  special  pleasure  to  be  with  you, 
as  the  Veteran  Association  of  the  famous  Ninth  is  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  exercises,  *  *  * 

Thanking  you  for  your  expressions  of  good  friendship, 
I  am 

Yours  Sincerely, 

STERN  BURG. 


FROM    M.    JUSSERAND,    FRENCH    AMBASSADOR    TO    THE 
UNITED  STATES. 

AMBASSADE  DE  FRANCE, 

A 
WASHINGTON, 

June  28,  1903. 
DEAR  SIR: 

I  am  deeply  touched  at  the  very  kind  and  flattering 
letter  you  wrote  to  me  on  behalf  of  the  American-Irish 
Society,  and  I  beg  you  to  convey  to  the  members  of  the 
same  my  best  thanks  for  their  invitation  and  for  the  feel- 
ings towards  my  country  and  myself  they  were  so 
good  as  to  express. 

I  am  sorry  to  find  that  I  must  add  to  my  thanks  the 
expression  of  my  regret  for  being  unable,  on  account  of 
other  obligations,  to  be  present  at  the  celebration  you 
are  preparing  for  the  5th  of  August. 

I  remain 

Very  Sincerely  Yours, 

JUSSERAND. 

To  MR.  THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY, 
HUMAROCK  BEACH, 
SEA  VIEW,  MASS. 


366     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 
The  following  order  is  self-explanatory : 

HEADQUARTERS  SECOND  COMPANY  GOVERNOR'S  FOOT 
GUARD. 

NEW  HAVEN,  CONN.,  July  27,  1903. 
General  Orders,  No.  6. 

I.  Pursuant  to  a  vote  of  this  Company,  you  are  here- 
by ordered  to  report  at  your  Armory  on  Wednesday 
Morning,  August  5th  next,  at  Eight  o'clock  sharp,  in  full 
dress  uniform  (scarlet  coat,  white  waistcoat  and  trousers, 
bearskin  hat  and  black  velvet  leggins,  with  white  gloves), 
for  the  purpose  of  escort  duty  to  our  Captain  General, 
Abiram  Chamberlain,  Governor  of  the  State  of  Connecti- 
cut, and  to  take  part  in  the  dedication  ceremonies  of  the 
Ninth  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers. 

II.  Staff,  Non-Commissioned    Staff   and    Band    will 
report  at  the  same  hour  and  place. 

III.  After  the  ceremonies  the  Company  will  return  to 
the  Armory  and  take  cars  for  Savin  Rock,  where  dinner 
will  be  served  at  "Hills'  Homestead." 

IV.  The  Governor  and  his  Staff,  Major  Bill  of  the 
First  Company,  G.  F.  G.,  Line    and    Staff,  and  invited 
guests  will  accompany  us. 

V.  Transportation  to  and  from  Savin  Rock  will  be 
arranged  by  the  Q.  M.  Department. 

By  order  of 

ALBERT  M.  JOHNSON, 

Major  Commanding. 
Official : 

RUSSELL  THOMPSON, 

Adjutant. 


Chief  Marshal  Tilson  issued  the  following  orders  for 
the  great  parade : 

General  Orders,  No.  i. 

I.     On  the  occasion  of  the  dedication    of   the   Ninth 
Regiment,  C.  V.  Monument  on  the  5th  of  August,  1903, 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  367 

the  Headquarters  of  the  Chief  Marshal  will  be  on  Elm 
Street,  corner  of  Temple  Street,  from  9.30  o'clock  until 
the  parade  moves. 

II.  Those  not  otherwise  assigned  will  report  to  the 
Chief  Marshal  at  9.30  o'clock  at  the  above  place  on  that 
date. 

III.  All   Aides   to   the   Chief   Marshal    will    report 
mounted.     The  uniform  will  be  black  or  dark  coats,  grey 
or  white  gloves,  and  soft  felt  or  campaign  hats.     Batons 
will  be  furnished  by  the  Committee  on  the  day  of  parade. 

By  Order  of 

JOHN  Q.  TILSON, 

Official :  Chief  Marshal. 

AMOS  F.  BARNES, 

Chief  of  Staff. 


General  Orders,  No.  2. 

I.  The  parade  on  the  occasion  of  the  dedication  of  the 
Ninth  regiment,  C.  V.,  monument  will  be  divided  into 
four  divisions  as  follows: 

First  division,  Col.  Theodore  H.  Sucher,  marshal ;  Sec- 
ond regiment  infantry,  C.  N.  G. ;  Second  battalion, 
Fourth  regiment  infantry,  C.  N.  G. ;  First  Separate  com- 
pany infantry,  C.  N.  G. ;  Machine  gun  battery,  C.  N.  G. ; 
Battery  A,  C.  N.  G. ;  First  and  Third  divisions,  Naval 
militia,  C.  N.  G. ;  Second  Company  Governor's  Foot 
guard ;  Gov.  Abiram  Chamberlain  and  staff. 

Second  division,  Col.  T.  J.  Murphy,  marshal ;  Ancient 
Order  of  Hibernians ;  Sons  of  Veterans. 

Third  division,  Commander  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley, 
marshal ;  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic ;  Sons  and  Grand- 
sons of  the  Ninth  regiment,  C.  V. ;  Ninth  veterans,  C.  V. 

Fourth  division,  Bernard  E.  Lynch,  marshal,  and 
aides ;  Catholic  Temperance  Institute  of  America ;  T.  A. 
and  B.  societies ;  detached  civic  organizations. 


368    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Fifth  division,  Col.  T.  F.  Callahan,  marshal;  Knights 
of  Columbus. 

II.  The  first  division  will  form  in  column  of  platoons 
on  Temple  street,  south  of  Elm  street,  with  right  resting 
on  Temple  street,  with  the  exception  of  the  Second  Com- 
pany Governor's  Foot  Guard,  which  will  form  on  Elm 
street,  east  of  Temple  street,  the  right  resting  on  Tem- 
ple street. 

III.  The  second  division  will  form  on  Temple  street, 
north  of  Elm  street,  with  right  resting  on  Elm  street. 

IV.  The  third  division  will  form  on  the  green,  east  of 
Temple  street,  next  to  the  fence  on  Elm  street,  with  right 
resting  on  Temple  street,  with  the  exception  of  the  Sons 
and  Grandsons  of  the  Ninth  regiment,  C.  V.,  Ninth  regi- 
ment, C.  V.,  and  general  committee,  who  will  form  on 
walk  from  Elm  and  Temple  streets  to  liberty  pole. 

V.  The  fourth  division  will  form  on  College  street, 
north   of   Elm   street,  with   right  resting  on  Elm  street. 
The  fifth  division  will  form  on  Elm  street,  west  of  Col- 
lege street,  with  right  resting  on  College  street. 

VI.  Organization  commanders    will    report    to    the 
marshal  of  their  division   as    soon    as   they   reach  their 
places  in  line. 

VII.  Division  marshals  will  report  to  the  chief  mar- 
shal as  soon  as  the  organizations  in  their  division  have 
reported. 

VIII.  Organizations  are  to  be  in  their  places  in  line 
not  later  than  10.30  o'clock,  arid  the  parade  will  move 
promptly  at  10.45.     The  line  of  march  will  be  through 
the     following     streets :     Elm    to    College,    College    to 
Chapel,  Chapel  to  Church,  passing  in  review  in  front  of 
the  city  hall,  Church  to  Whitney  avenue,  Whitney  avenue 
to  Trumbull,  Trumbull  to  Orange,  Orange  to-  Chapel, 
Chapel  to  Church,  Church  to  Congress  avenue,  Congress 
avenue  to  Howard  avenue,  Howard  avenue  to  Bay  View 
park. 


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IX.  Retired  and  active  officers  of  the  United  States 
army  and  navy  and  the  Connecticut  National  guard,  act- 
ing1 as  aides  to  the  chief  marshal,  are  authorized  to  wear 
the  uniform  of  the  rank  on  which  they  were  retired. 

By  order  of 

JOHN  Q.  TILSON, 

Chief  Marshal. 
Official: 

AMOS  F.  BARNES, 

Chief  of  Staff. 


General  orders.  No.  3. 

I.  The  line  of  march  on  the  occasion  of  the  dedication 
of  the  monument  to  the  Ninth  regiment,  C.  V.,  as  pub- 
lished in  general  orders  No.  2,  is  hereby  changed  as  fol- 
lows:    Elm  to  College,  College  to  Chapel,  Chapel  to 
Church,  Church  to  Grove,  Grove  to  Orange,  Orange  to 
Chapel,  Chapel  to  Church,  Church  to  Congress  avenue, 
to  Howard  avenue,  to  Bay  View  park. 

II.  Organization  commanders  are  requested  to  be  in 
their  places  in  line  at  10.30  o'clock  sharp,  as  the  parade 
will  start  promptly  at  10.45  o'clock. 

By  order  of 

JOHN  Q.  TILSON, 

Chief  Marshal. 
Official : 

AMOS  F.  BARNES, 

Chief  of  Staff. 


The  make-up  of  the  procession  in  detail,  as  finally  de- 
cided upon,  was  as  follows : 

Mounted  police. 
Platoon  of  police. 

Chief  Marshal,  Maj.  John  Q.  Tilson. 
Chief  of  staff,  First  Lieut.  Amos  F.  Barnes. 
Aides— James  A.  Howarth,  New  Haven ;  N.  W.  Ken- 
dall, New  Haven;  Fred    B.    Fallen,    Bridgeport;  Gen. 


370 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


Henry  S.  Peck,  New  Haven;  Maj.  D.  A.  Blakeslee,  New 
Haven;  Col.  Lucien  F.  Burpee,  Waterbury;  N.  Burton 
Rogers,  Danbury ;  Gen.  E.  E.  Bradley,  New  Haven ; 
Joseph  E.  Ahern,  New  Haven ;  Patrick  L.  Harkins,  New 
Haven ;  Edward  Finlan,  Bridgeport ;  Dr.  M.  D.  Slattery, 
New  Haven ;  Joseph  H.  Scharff,  New  York ;  Major  Ira 
E.  Hicks,  New  Britain;  Samuel  B.  Home,  Winsted; 
Albert  E.  Lavery,  Bridgeport;  David  S.  Walton,  Jr., 
New  Haven;  A.  Avery  Bevin,  East  Hampton;  M.  J. 
Byrne,  Waterbury;  M.  F.  McCabe,  Naugatuck;  Major 
Henry  S.  Dorsey,  New  London;  E.  J.  Duggan,  New 
Haven ;  Seymour  C.  Loomis,  New  Haven ;  Thomas  F. 
Foran,  New  London ;  Gen.  Phelps  Montgomery,  New 
Haven ;  Capt.  C.  R.  Bannon,  Waterbury ;  Col.  T.  B.  War- 
ren, Bridgeport ;  Capt.  James  N.  Coe,  Noroton  Heights ; 
Capt.  Alfred  B.  Beers,  Bridgeport;  James  R.  Maxwell, 
New  Haven ;  Lieut.  H.  S.  Hamilton,  New  Haven ;  Gen. 
A.  H.  Embler,  New  Haven ;  Col.  Edward  Schultz,  Hart- 
ford ;  James  M.  Lawton,  New  Haven ;  Capt.  W.  H.  Sears, 
New  Haven;  Denis  Murphy,  New  Haven;  T.  J.  Leddy,. 
New  Haven;  Col.  I.  M.  Ullman,  New  Haven;  Capt.  L. 
Ludington,  New  Haven  ;  John  J.  Corr,  Bridgeport ;  Edw. 
C.  Mooney,  New  Haven ;  William  F.  Stahl,  New  Haven ; 
Dr.  William  F.  Allen,  New  Haven ;  L.  F.  Nealon,  North 
Bridgeport;  J.  N.  Williams,  New  Haven. 

FIRST   DIVISION. 

Marshal,  Col.  Theodore  H.  Sucher. 

Second  regiment  infantry,  C.  N.  G. 

Lieut.  Colonel  James  Geddes,  Waterbury. 

Major  Charles  F.  McCabe,  New  Haven. 

Company  C,  New  Haven — Capt.  Jeremiah  F.  Donovan; 

First  Lieut.  William    B.    Spencer;    Second    Lieut. 

James  A.  Haggerty. 
Company  G,  Waterbury — Capt.  Daniel  E.  Fitzpatrick; 

First  Lieut.  Patrick  Halpin;  Second  Lieut.  Thomas 

F.  Hallihan. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  371 

Company  B,  New    Haven — Capt.  Frank    Pauley;  First 

Lieut.  J.  Salerno;  Second  Lieut.  W.  Hedrich. 
Company  F,  New  Haven — Capt.  Edward  O.  Gruener; 

First  Lieut.  Leroy  Clark ;  Second  Lieut.  E.  L.  Fox. 
Company  D,  New  Haven — Capt.  Ernest  L.  Isbell ;  First 

Lieut.   Aaron  A.  Ailing;  Second   Lieut.  Henry  A. 

Beebe. 
Company  E,  New  Haven — Capt.  George  E.  Hall;  First 

Lieut.    Edgar    Thomas;    Second    Lieut.    John    L. 

Graver. 

Second  battalion,  Fourth  regiment  infantry,  C.  N.  G. 

Major  James  J.  Hurley. 
First  Lieut.  R.  N.  Burroughs,  adjutant. 
Company   K,   Capt.   Stephen   P.   Cronan;   First  Lieut. 
Louis  J.   Harrmann;   Second    Lieut.    Thomas    J. 
Rooney. 
Company  E,  Capt.  John  A.  Leonard ;  First  Lieut.  James 

H.  Havens ;  Second  Lieut.  Arthur  Chambers. 
Company    B,    Capt.   James    J.    Halligan;    First    Lieut. 
John  McBride ;  Second  Lieut.  Charles  G.  Burkhardt. 
Company  I,  Winsted — Capt.  George  M.  Grossman ;  First 
Lieut.  Joseph  L.  Carroll;  Second   Lieut.   Fred   W. 
Schultz, 

First  Separate  company,  infantry,  C.  N.  G. 

Captain,  John  W.  Ross,  Jr. 

First  Lieut.  William  L.  Jones. 

Second  Lieut.  Perry  Banta. 

Battery  A  (light),  C.  N.  G. 
Captain  commanding,  William  J.  O'Brien. 
First  platoon,  First  Lieut.  William  H.  Hotchkiss ;  Sec- 
ond Lieut.  Frank  M.  White. 

Second  platoon,  First  Lieut.  John  F.  Kinney;  Second 
Lieut.  George  C.  Walsh. 

Second  section,  Machine  Gun  battery. 

First  Lieut.  Robert  G.  Morley,  commanding. 

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372    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Naval  militia. 
Commander  F.  L.  Averill  and  staff. 

First  division,  Lieut.  Charles  A.  Ingersoll,  New  Haven; 
Lieut.  (J,  G.)  John  K.  Murphy,  New  Haven ;  Ensign, 
Clifford  M.  Peck,  Milford;  Ensign,  Ambrose  B. 
Jewett,  New  Haven. 

Third  division,  Bridgeport — Lieut.  Frederic  A.  Bartlett, 
Bridgeport ;  Lieut.  (J.  G.),  William  Edwards  Waller, 
Plattsville;  Ensign,  William  P.  Downs,  Bridgeport. 

Second  Company  Governor's  Foot  Guard.  Major  Albert 
M.  Johnson,  commanding. 

His  Excellency,  Gov.  Abiram  Chamberlain  and  staff,  in 
carriages. 

SECOND  DIVISION. 

Marshal,  Col.  T.  J.  Murphy. 

Three  companies  of  the  First  regiment,  Hibernian  Rifles. 

Staff — Adjutant,  Capt.  Edward  J.  Joy,  Bridgeport;  quar- 
termaster, Lieut.  James  H.  Rooney,  Bridgeport; 
paymaster,  Lieut.  William  F.  Dwyer,  New  Haven; 
sergeant  major,  Patrick  Flynn,  Bridgeport. 

Company  B,  Hartford — Capt.  Henry  J.  Mclnnis;  First 
Lieut.  John  M.  Sever ;  Second  Lieut.  John  P.  Flan- 
agan. 

Company  F,  Bridgeport — Capt.  James  Carter;  First 
Lieut.  Thomas  Brady;  Second  Lieut.  Thomas  F. 
Cotter. 

Company  A,  Naugatuck — Capt.  J.  D.  Shea ;  First  Lieut. 
Patrick  Murtagh ;  Second  Lieut.  M.  J.  Ryan. 

vSons  of  Veterans. 

Commander,  Edward  Croft. 
Adjutant,  Frank  H.  Me  Gar. 

Nathan  Hale  Camp,  No.  I,  New  Haven — William  B. 
Blair,  captain. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  373 

Charles  L.  Upham  Camp,  No.  7,  Meriden — Joseph  De 

Cantillou,  captain. 
Franklin  Bartlett  Camp,  No.  n,  Bridgeport — Capt.  G. 

E.  Hall. 

THIRD  DIVISION. 

Commander  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  marshal. 

Aides. 
Grand  Army  Posts,  headed  by  Admiral  Foote  Post,  No. 

17,  Willis  B.  Isbell,  commander. 

Sons  and  Grandsons  of  the  Ninth  regiment,  C.  V. 

Ninth  regiment  veterans,  C.  V. 

General  committee. 

FOURTH    DIVISION. 

Bernard  E.  Lynch,  marshal. 
Division  Chief  of  Staff,  Michael  F.  Campbell. 
Aides,  Thomas  F.  Meagher,  Bernard  J.  Mulvey,  John  H. 
Meade,  Thomas  Flanagan,  John  J.  Gaffey,  Augus- 
tine Lonergan,  Thomas  J.  O'Brien,  Hugh  I.  Hag- 
gerty,  Stephen  J.  O'Brien,  Edw.  F.  Kavanagh, 
Henry  Hayden,  James  K.  Kennedy,  James  Murphy, 
Felix  Callahan,  James  J.  Hanley,  Michael  Brophy, 
George  C.  Lambert,  Andrew  Flanagan,  Bernard 
Burns,  Wm.  F.  Tammany,  Michael  J.  Keyes, 
Thomas  Donlan,  Patrick  F.  McGoldrick,  James  T. 
Meskill,  Wm.  H.  Hutchinson,  Cornelius  J.  Danaher, 
Thomas  H.  Burns,  Joseph  H.  Freney,  Frank  J. 
Kinney,  Roger  T.  Murphy,  Charles  O.  Murphy, 
Thomas  F.  Fitzgerald. 
Catholic  Temperance  Institute  of  America,  T.  A.  &  B. 

societies. 
Detached  civic  organizations. 

FIFTH  DIVISION. 

Col.  T.  F.  Callahan,  marshal. 
Knights  of  Columbus. 


374    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

The  programme  arranged    for    the    exercises  at  the 
monument  was  as  follows : 

"Hail  Columbia" — Boys  of  the  public  schools,  with  20 
boys  from  St.  Francis'  asylum,  under  the  direction 
of  Prof.  B.  Jepson,  supervisor  of  music  in  New 
Haven  schools. 

Remarks — By  Col.  John  G.  Healy,  president  Ninth  Con- 
necticut Veteran  Association. 

Prayer — Rev.  James  J.  Gleeson  of  Willimantic. 

Unveiling  of  Monument — Miss  Kathleen  O'Keefe  and 
Master  Thomas  Marshal  Cahill  Egan.  (The  former 
is  a  daughter  of  Lieut.  William  O'Keefe  of  the 
Ninth ;  and  the  latter,  a  grandson  of  Col.  Cahill). 

Song— "Red,  White  and  Blue." 

Oration — Rev.  William  J.  Slocum  of  Waterbury,  chap- 
lain Ninth  Regiment  Veteran  Association. 

Surrender  of  monument  to  city — Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gib- 
bon, chairman  monument  committee. 

Acceptance — Hon.  John  P.  Studley,  mayor  of  New 
Haven. 

Transfer  to  park  commissioners. 

Song— "Union  Dixie." 

Remarks — Department  Commander  Morgan  G.  Bulke- 
ley,  G.  A.  R> 

Prayer — Rev.  Watson  L.  Phillips,  chaplain  Second  Com- 
pany Governor's  Foot  Guard. 

"Star  Spangled  Banner" — The  New  American  band. 


The  New  Haven  Register  in  its  issue  of  Aug.  i,  noted 
that  "On  Wednesday  of  next  week  New  Haven  will  be 
given  over  to  the  Ninth  regiment,  Connecticut  Volun- 
teers. A  monument  will  be  unveiled  in  its  honor,  the  city 
will  be  filled  with  veterans  and  active  militiamen,  and  the 
state  will  be  represented  by  Governor  Chamberlain  and 
his  military  staff.  It  will  be  a  great  occasion.  Upon  an 
occasion  of  this  significance  it  is  the  duty  of  New  Haven 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  375 

to  put  on  its  best  attire  and  throw  into  the  observance  of 
the  day  its  best  and  most  enthusiastic  spirit.  The  regi- 
ment, whose  services  are  to  be  memorialized  and  made  as 
immortal  as  granite  can  make  them,  has  a  fine  place  in 
the  affection  and  gratitude  of  the  nation.  *  *  * 

"New  Haven,  on  Wednesday,  should  recall  the  services 
of  this  regiment  and  honor  it  by  the  display  everywhere 
of  the  flag  it  did  so  much  to  uphold.  *  *  * 

"We  have  no  doubt  the  management  of  the  celebration 
has  made  the  necessary  arrangements  to  have  the  streets 
emptied  of  surface  cars  and  other  vehicles  during  the 
parade.  If  not,  the  mayor  should  be  appealed  to  to  issue 
the  necessary  proclamation.  Even  at  the  complete  dis- 
turbance of  the  time  table,  the  gallant  soldiers  of  the  ex- 
Ninth,  and  their  military  guests,  should  be  given  the  ex- 
clusive right  of  way  through  the  streets  they  march.  Let 
all  conceivable  honor  be  done  the  Ninth." 

The  next  day,  Aug.  2,  the  Register  stated  that  "Every- 
thing is  in  readiness  for  one  of  the  greatest  military  re- 
unions ever  held  in  New  Haven,  the  celebration  of  the 
Ninth  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  which  will  oc- 
cur Wednesday.  Already  red,  white  and  blue  colors  are 
being  thrown  out,  and  by  Tuesday  evening,  if  citizens 
respond  as  liberally  as  they  are  expected  to,  the  whole 
line  of  march  will  be  resplendent  with  United  States  flags. 
Briefly,  the  exercises  will  include  a  monster  parade  in 
the  morning,  with  unveiling  exercises  at  the  Bay  View 
park." 

On  Aug.  3,  the  Register  said :  "Bay  View  park  to-day 
assumed  the  appearance  of  a  camp  ground.  Big  tents 
where  the  veterans  are  to  be  cared  for  after  the  parade, 
were  pitched  and  carpenters  are  at  work  erecting  grand 
stands  near  the  monument  for  those  who'  will  take  part 
in  the  exercises,  on  Wednesday  next,  at  the  unveiling  of 
the  Ninth  regiment,  C.  V.,  monument. 

"This  morning  Colonel  John  G.  Healy  received  word 
from  Capt.  J.  D.  Shea  of  Naugatuck,  stating  that  the 


376    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Hibernian  rifles  of  that  town  would  take  part  in  the 
parade.  This  will  make  three  uniformed  companies  of 
the  A.  O.  H.  that  will  be  here.  Col.  T.  J.  Murphy  of  the 
A.  O.  H.  will  be  in  the  parade  at  the  head  of  the  A.  O.  H. 
organizations  and  will  have  as  aides,  Capt.  E.  J.  Joy, 
Lieut.  J.  H.  Rooney  and  Lieut.  William  H.  Dwyer. 

"The  following  order  has  been  issued  by  Post  Com- 
mander James  Forbes  : 

HEADQUARTERS   KELLOGG   POST,   No.  26,  G.  A.  R.  of 
DERBY. 

All  the  comrades  of  Kellogg  post  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  attend  the  dedication  of  the  monument  of  the 
Ninth  Connecticut  volunteers  on  the  old  camp  ground, 
New  Haven,  Wednesday,  August  5.  The  comrades  will 
report  at  the  Berkshire  depot,  Derby,  at  8.30  a.  m., 
Wednesday,  August  5. 

All  those  that  have  uniforms  will  come  in  full  uniform, 
cane  and  white  gloves. 

Railroad  fares  have  been  fixed  at  a  fare  and  one-half 
for  round  trip.  The  department  commander  wishes  all 
the  comrades  to  be  there. 

(Signed)  JAMES  FORBES, 

Post  Commander. 

"Edward  Croft,  commander  of  the  Connecticut  divi- 
sion, Sons  of  Veterans,  U.  S.  A.,  has  issued  the  following 
order  regarding  the  attendance  of  members  of  the  com- 
mand at  the  dedication  of  the  Ninth  Regiment  monument 
at  New  Haven,  Wednesday : 

SPECIAL  ORDER,  No.  3,  1903. 

WATERBURY,  July  29,  1903. 

I.  All  camps  and  members  who  are  to  take  part  in 
the  parade  and  dedication  of  the  monument  of  the  Ninth 
regiment,  C.  V.,  will  report  in  New  Haven,  August  5th, 
at  9.30  a.  m.,  Room  15,  Insurance  building,  to  Adjutant 
F.  H.  McGar,  who  will  assign  them  their  proper  places  in 
the  parade. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  377 

II.  All  members  who  can  possibly  attend  are  urged  to 
do  so. 

III.  Staff  officers  will  report  in  full  uniform,  side  arms 
and  white  gloves. 

"Captain  C.  W.  Roberts,  commanding  Stedman  Camp, 
No.  6,  S.  of  V.,  has  issued  orders  directing  all  members 
of  his  camp  who  intend  to  go  to  New  Haven  to  report  to 
him  at  once. 

"The  Irish  flag  is  conspicuous  in  the  decorations  about 
town.  Something  unique  in  decorations  is  arranged  by 
Maj.  George  E.  Albee  at  his  residence  on  Howard  Ave- 
nue. As  part  of  the  decorations  at  his  house  he  has  an 
Irish  pike,  a  weapon  used  in  the  Irish  insurrection  in 
1798.  Major  Albee  is  preparing  a  decoration  which  he 
says  will  be  'dear  to  the  hearts  of  all  members  of  the 
Ninth,  C.  V.' " 

The  Waterbury,  Ct.,  American,  of  Aug.  4,  had  the  fol- 
lowing: "New  Haven  will  witness  one  of  the  greatest 
days  in  its  history  tomorrow  when  the  ceremony  of  un- 
veiling the  monument  in  honor  of  the  Ninth  Regiment, 
Connecticut  Volunteers,  will  take  place.  Military  and 
other  organizations  from  all  over  the  State  will  be  present. 
"Company  G,  Second  Regiment,  C.  N.  G.,  of  this  city 
will  run  an  excursion  to  that  city  to-morrow.  The  train 
will  leave  the  Naugatuck  Division  station  at  8.30  o'clock 
in  the  morning  and  will  leave  New  Haven  tomorrow 
night  at  9.10  o'clock.  A  large  number  of  Waterbury 
people  will  accompany  the  company  on  the  trip. 

"In  addition  to  the  above  company,  about  200  mem- 
bers of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  will  attend  from  this 
city,  and  in  New  Haven  they  will  join  a  number  of 
other  Knights  from  other  places  through  the  State. 
Members  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans  of  this  city,  as  well  as 
members  of  the  organization  from  other  places  in  the 
State,  will  also  be  in  attendance.  The  American  Band 
will  head  Company  G. 


378     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTR  Y. 

"Among  those  from  this  city  who  will  attend  are  the 
Rev.  William  J.  Slocum,  who  will  be  the  orator  of  the 
day;  Maj.  Charles  R.  Bannon,  captain  of  police;  Col. 
John  B.  Doherty,  and  Attorney  M.  J.  Bryne.  The  last 
three  named  will  be  aides  on  the  staff  of  Grand  Marshal 
Tilson. 

"Flags  and  bunting  are  being  hung  for  decorative  pur- 
pose with  a  liberal  hand  in  New  Haven  to-day,  to  give  a 
holiday  aspect  to  the  city's  principal  streets  in  anticipa- 
tion of  the  parade  and  monument  exercises  of  the  old 
Ninth. 

"Plans  have  been  fully  matured  for  the  two  chief  fea- 
tures— the  parade  and  the  unveiling  and  dedication  of  the 
granite  memorial  at  Bay  View  park — and  with  good 
weather  the  day  promises  to  be  a  notable  one.  Not  a  lit- 
tle interest  is  taken  in  the  several  reunions  of  the  sur- 
vivors of  the  famous  Civil  War  regiment  and  all  day 
veterans  came  to  the  city  to  renew  acquaintances. 

"The  hotels  are  filling  up  and  many  citizens  are  enter- 
taining visitors.  At  the  Tontine,  members  of  the  Ameri- 
can-Irish Historical  Society  are  gathering  and  they,  too, 
will  attend  the  monument  exercises.  *  *  * 

The  following  is  from  the  New  Haven  Register,  of 
Aug.  4:  "The  coverings  of  canvas  upon  the  figure  of 
the  soldier  'at  rest'  upon  the  monument  of  the  Ninth 
regiment,  C.  V.,  in  Bay  View  park,  was  removed  this 
afternoon  and  the  monument  was  draped  instead  with  the 
American  colors.  These  will  remain  until  the  strings  are 
pulled  to-morrow  and  the  monument  formally  unveiled. 
Col.  John  G.  Healy,  chairman  of  the  monument  com- 
mittee, said  to-day  that  all  arrangements  had  been  com- 
pleted for  the  dedication  to-morrow.  It  will  be  a  great 
day  for  New  Haven  and  as  many  of  the  manufacturing 
concerns  are  to  close  it  will  almost  be  a  general  holiday 
in  the  city. 

"Police  Captains  Tripp  and  O'Keefe  [and  Supt.  James 
Wrinn]  were  at  Bay  View  park  this  morning,  completing 


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the  arrangements  for  the  policing  of  the  territory  and 
roping  off  the  park  for  the  organizations  that  will  par- 
ticipate. The  hospital  tents  and  the  big  spread  of  canvas 
in  which  the  veterans  are  to  be  given  luncheon  after  the 
parade  are  up.  Members  of  the  Ninth  regiment  are  be- 
ginning to  arrive  in  town.  Many  of  them  called  at  the 
headquarters  at  the  Hotel  Oneco  this  afternoon.  In  the 
parade  to-morrow  the  survivors  of  the  Ninth  regiment 
will  carry  an  Irish  flag  belonging  to  Company  C,  Second 
regiment,  which  has  been  loaned  to  the  veterans  by  the 
company. 

'This  morning  Prof.  Benjamin  Jepson  had  the  school 
children's  chorus  *  *  *  in  the  stand  at  Bay  View  park 
for  an  open  air  rehearsal.  The  Ninth  regiment  monu- 
ment committee  met  in  city  hall  last  evening.  There  was 
a  large  attendance  and  all  the  sub-committees  reported 
that  everything  had  been  done  to  make  the  affair  a  suc- 
cess. It  was  voted  that  refreshments  be  provided  for  the 
old  G.  A.  R.  veterans  who  should  arrive  on  early  trains 
from  out  of  town.  The  line  of  march  has  been  somewhat 
changed,  two  blocks  being  left  out,  so  as  to  make  a 
shorter  march." 

The  Waterbury,  Ct.,  Democrat,  in  its  issue  of  Aug.  4, 
under  the  head  of  "Naugatuck,"  calls  attention  to  the 
fact  that :  "To-morrow  the  Ninth  C.  V.  regiment  monu- 
ment will  be  dedicated  in  New  Haven.  It  will  be  a  big 
day  in  New  Haven,  people  coming  from  all  over  the  state 
to  the  Elm  City  to  witness  the  ceremonies.  A  large  quota 
will  go  from  this  borough.  The  special  has  been  secured 
to  take  the  local  people  to  New  Haven.  It  will  leave  the 
local  depot  at  about  8.30  a.  m,  and  returning  leave  New 
Haven  at  9  p.  m.  The  fare  for  the  round  trip  is  75  cents, 
the  tickets  being  good  on  any  train  returning.  Tickets 
are  now  on  sale  at  the  passenger  station  or  can  be  pro- 
cured from  members  of  the  committees  from  the  three 
local  societies  which  are  to  take  part  in  the  parade.  The 
Y.  M.  C.  I.,  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  the  Hibernian 


380    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.   VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Rifles  of  this  town  are  to  take  part  in  the  exercises.  The 
Y.  M.  C.  I.  have  had  a  large  banner  of  royal  purple  with 
gold  trimmings,  30x50  inches,  made,  and  they  have  hired 
the  Naugatuck  drum  corps  to  furnish  music  for  them. 
The  banner,  which  is  a  handsome  one,  was  made  by  Miss 
May  Dooling,  the  well  known  local  dressmaker.  The 
Hibernian  Rifles  will  be  accompanied  by  the  St.  Francis' 
T.  A.  B.  drum  corps.  Persons  desiring  tickets  for  the 
special  train  should  procure  them  before  Wednesday 
morning  if  possible  so  as  to  avoid  the  rush  at  the  depot." 

The  New  Haven  Palladium,  Aug.  5,  observes :  "This 
is  the  day  on  which  we  pay  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
those  members  of  the  gallant  Ninth  regiment,  Connecti- 
cut Volunteers,  who  gave  their  lives  and  health,  or  at 
least  tendered  them  to  the  cause  of  their  country  in  sus- 
taining the  integrity  of  the  Union  in  the  perilous  times 
from  1861  to  1864,  inclusive.  Not  only  do  we  commem- 
orate the  death  of  the  soldiers  who  have  gone  before,  but 
we  offer  our  praise  and  gratitude  to  the  surviving  mem- 
bers of  the  'Irish  regiment'  who  are  still  with  us  to 
receive  the  plaudits  of  the  younger  generation  and  of 
their  contemporaries,  who  can  perhaps  more  fully  appre- 
ciate the  value  of  the  efforts  which  were  put  forth,  and 
with  a  successful  issue,  when  the  Union  was  badly  in 
need  of  men,  than  can  those  of  us  who  have  only  history 
and  the  reminiscences  of  our  fathers  to  keep  us  informed 
of  the  conditions  which  existed  forty-two  years  ago. 

"The  record  of  the  Ninth  is  a  good  one  and  every  sur- 
viving member  may  well  feel  proud  that  he  was  enrolled 
in  this,  one  of  the  first  volunteer  regiments  to  offer  its 
services  to  the  government.  *  *  * 

New  Haven  does  well  to  honor  the  living  and  the  dead 
of  the  Ninth  and  we  trust  that  every  owner  of  the  national 
colors  will  see  that  they  are  flung  to  the  breeze  to-day. 
That  much  active  participation  each  possessor  of  an 
American  flag  can  take  in  the  celebration  of  the  day." 

The  morning  of  Aug.  5,  the  day  set  for  the  celebration, 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  381 

dawned  cloudy  and  wet.  It  had  rained  heavily  during 
the  night  and  the  downpour  still  continued. 

At  breakfast  time  the  heavy  rain  showed  no  signs  of 
abating  and  expressions  of  regret  were  everywhere  heard. 
The  elaborate  decorations  on  Howard  avenue,  Church 
street,  and  in  other  parts  of  the  city  drooped  in  the  storm 
and  lost  much  of  their  gayety.  Rivulets  ran  along  the 
streets  and  pools  of  water  formed  here  and  there,  making 
conditions  as  bad  underfoot  as  they  were  overhead. 
Umbrellas  were  in  demand. 

A  high  wind  also  prevailed  and  the  great  elms  on  the 
city  green  tossed  their  branches,  at  the  same  time  send- 
ing down  showers  upon  the  passers-by.  The  open  elec- 
tric cars  with  their  half  drawn  curtains  presented  a  dreary 
spectacle.  The  seats  were  wet  and  most  of  the  passen- 
gers rode  in  a  standing  position.  The  weather  forecast 
was  frequently  consulted,  and  the  hope  expressed  that 
the  climatic  conditions  would  clear  before  10  a.  m. 

But  the  rain  still  came  down.  As  the  morning  ad- 
vanced, telephone  messages  came  from  different  parts  of 
the  State  inquiring  if  the  parade  would  take  place.  In 
the  meantime,  the  committee  having  charge  of  the  exer- 
cises was  in  session  to  decide  on  a  course  of  action.  After 
the  matter  had  been  thoroughly  discussed,  the  storm  still 
continuing,  it  was  decided  not  to  have  the  street  parade. 
It  was  also  determined  to  have  the  principal  exercises  in 
the  Second  Regiment  armory  on  Meadow  street,  a  detail 
in  the  meantime  being  sent  to  Bay  View  park  to  unveil 
the  monument. 

Speaking  of  these  events,  the  New  Haven  Evening 
Leader  of  Aug.  5,  said:  "On  account  of  the  inclement 
weather  to-day  the  program  was  somewhat  changed. 
Early  this  morning  the  committee  hoped  that  the  weather 
would  be  sufficiently  clear  to  enable  them  to  at  least  have 
a  short  street  parade  of  the  local  militia  as  well  as  the 
numerous  out  of  town  societies  which  arrived  in  this  city 
early  this  morning. 


382     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

"At  ten  o'clock  there  was  no  prospect  of  the  weather 
clearing  and  the  weather  man  holding  out  no  hope  for 
sunshine  the  rest  of  the  day,  the  order  of  the  day's  exer- 
cises was  completely  changed  about.  It  was  decided  to 
give  up  the  idea  of  a  formal  street  procession  and  the 
members  of  the  Ninth  regiment  went  to  Music  hall,  on 
Court  street,  establishing  headquarters  at  that  place. 

"Early  this  morning  the  Second  Company  Governor's 
Foot  Guard,  marched  to  the  depot  to  act  as  escort  to>  the 
Governor  and  his  staff.  He  arrived  about  9.30  and  was 
taken  immediately  to  the  Hotel  Tontine.  The  Governor 
was  taken  to  the  reception  room  at  the  hotel  and  held  a 
short  reception  to  the  members  of  the  Ninth  and  the 
civilians  present. 

"Several  organizations  having  arrived  from  out  of  town 
at  this  point  they  were  instructed  to  make  the  armory 
their  headquarters,  as  the  exercises  were  to  be  held  there. 

"The  problem  to  be  solved  by  the  committee  and  which 
was  done  in  a  very  pleasing  manner  to  the  veterans  of  the 
Ninth,  was  the  decision  of  the  committee  to  transport  the 
veterans  to  Bay  View  Park  and  have  them  unveil  the 
monument.  Miss  Kathleen  O'Keefe,  daughter  of  Captain 
of  Police  O'Keefe,,  a  former  member  of  the  Ninth  reg't, 
and  Thomas  Marshall  Cahill  Egan,  a  grandson  of  Colonel 
Thomas  W.  Cahill,  were  taken  in  a  hack  to>  the  park  to 
perform  the  act  of  unveiling  the  monument. 

"When  the  members  of  the  Ninth  reached  the  park, 
there  was  a  crowd  of  fully  700  people  assembled  to  wit- 
ness the  ceremony.  Several  detachments  of  the  Sons  of 
Veterans  were  at  the  park  and  acted  as  a  guard  during 
the  ceremonies.  It  was  pouring  rain  at  this  time. 

"Colonel  John  G.  Healy  made  a  few  brief  remarks  at 
the  monument  and  then  the  two  young  people  were  lifted 
so  that  they  could  pull  the  rope  that  would  let  down  the 
American  flag  which  had  been  spread  over  the  monu- 
ment. As  if  difficulties  were  still  to  be  in  the  way  of  a 
successful  carrying  out  of  the  committee's  program,  the 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  383 

rope  refused  to  let  down  the  flag.  Then  Master  Egan 
climbed  to  the  top  of  the  monument,  and  amid  the  cheers 
of  the  crowd,  lowered  the  flag,  revealing  the  monument. 
Three  cheers  were  given  at  the  grounds  by  the  crowd 
present. 

"The  feature  of  having  the  veterans  ride  to  the  park 
and  unveil  the  monument  despite  all  the  obstacles  was 
one  of  the  pleasing  things  of  the  day.  It  was  with  de- 
light that  the  veterans  went  out  to  the  grounds  and  they 
were  much  pleased  that  they  could  participate  in  the  un- 
veiling, despite  the  rain.  *  *  *  About  10.30  o'clock, 
after  it  was  announced  that  the  parade  was  declared  off, 
the  reviewing  stand  erected  in  front  of  city  hall  was 
taken  down  and  carted  to  a  place  in  the  rear  of  the  build- 
ing. It  was  tastefully  decorated  with  the  national  colors 
all  ready  for  the  city's  officials  who  were  to  review  the 
parade." 

The  exercises  at  the  armory  were  of  a  most  interesting 
nature.  A  platform  had  been  erected  in  the  center  of  the 
great  drill  hall  for  the  speakers  and  specially  invited 
guests.  At  the  corners  of  the  platform  was  posted  a 
guard  of  honor,  consisting  of  members  of  the  Governor's 
Foot  Guard  in  full  uniform.  On  the  platform,  was  seated 
the  committee  of  arrangements,  Governor  Chamberlain 
and  his  staff,  the  Rev.  William  J.  Slocum,  orator  of  the 
day;  the  Rev.  James  J.  Gleeson,  of  Willimantic,  and  a 
number  of  other  prominent  people. 

Around  the  platform  was  assembled  a  great  and  en- 
thusiastic multitude  of  both  sexes.  In  one  of  the  galleries 
were  stationed  several  hundred  boys  of  the  public 
schools,  to  whom  was  assigned  the  rendering  of  the  great 
choruses.  At  intervals,  the  bands  in  the  armory  rendered 
patriotic  selections. 

The  New  Haven  Palladium  in  its  account  of  the  exer- 
cises states  that:  "As  soon  as  the  committee  which  un- 
veiled the  monument  returned  from  the  park,  the  pro- 
gram of  exercises  was  opened.  The  west  gallery  of  the 


384    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

hall  was  filled  with  the  boys  of  the  public  *  *  *  * 
schools,  who  furnished  the  vocal  music,  and  it  was  one 
of  the  chief  features  of  the  affair.  The  chorus  was  directed 
from  the  speaker's  platform  by  Professor  Benjamin 
Jepson,  and  the  voices  were  accompanied  by  the  band. 
The  boys  were  in  perfect  harmony  and  entered  into  the 
spirit  of  the  occasion  in  a  manner  which  resulted  in  the 
commendation  of  all  present. 

"At  the  conclusion  of  the  singing  of  'Hail  Columbia' 
by  the  chorus.  Col.  John  G.  Healy,  president  of  the  Ninth 
Regiment  Veteran  association,  made  a  short  address  of 
welcome. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  the  Rev.  James  J.  Gleeson.  Miss 
O'Keefe  and  Master  Egan,  who  had  participated  in  the 
unveiling  of  the  monument,  were  then  presented  and  were 
greeted  with  applause. 

Governor  Chamberlain  was  next  introduced.  He  made 
a  spirited  address  and  reviewed  some  of  the  achieve- 
ments of  the  Ninth  on  the  field  of  battle  and  spoke 
strongly  of  their  love  of  country,  and  of  the  many  great 
sacrifices  they  had  made  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Union.  He  paid  a  glowing  tribute  to  Colonel  Cahill  and 
Colonel  Healy  and  to  those  members  of  the  Ninth  who 
died  in  the  service  of  their  country.  Speaking  of  the 
monument,  the  Governor  said  it  would  do  much  good  to 
the  generations  to  come  as  an  example  of  patriotism  of 
a  band  of  men  who  endured  great  hardships  in  defence 
of  the  nation. 

The  Governor  at  the  conclusion  of  his  address  called 
for  three  cheers  for  the  Ninth  and  for  Colonel  Healy. 
They  were  given  with  a  will. 

The  Rev.  William  J.  Slocum,  of  Waterbury,  orator  of 
the  day,  was  next  introduced.  He  was  cordially  greeted 
and  delivered  an  eloquent  address.  He  called  attention 
to  the  time  42  years  ago  when  the  members  of  regiments 
were  assembled  on  the  green,  that  it  was  then  as  it  is 
to-day,  that  Prof.  Benjamin  Jepson  led  the  patriotic  sing- 


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ing.  This  remark  brought  forth  a  round  of  applause  for 
the  veteran  teacher  of  music  in  the  public  schools,  Pro- 
fessor Jepson.  Three  cheers  were  given  at  the  solicita- 
tion of  Father  Slocum,  for  the  Professor. 

Speaking  of  his  position  as  chaplain  of  the  Veteran 
Association  of  the  Ninth,  Father  Slocum  stated  that  he 
was  not  in  the  Ninth  during  the  war.  He  was  then  but 
a  boy.  He  desired  to  pay  tribute,  however,  to  the 
real  chaplains,  the  Rev.  Daniel  Mullen  and  Rev.  Leo 
(Rizzo)  De  Saracena,  both  of  whom  are  now  dead. 

Father  Slocum  reviewed  the  history  of  the  Ninth,  its 
organization  and  the  career,  during  that  period,  of  Con- 
necticut's governor,  William  A.  Buckingham.  He  stated 
that  Connecticut  had  not  honored  this  famous  governor 
sufficiently  until  a  monument  had  been  erected  to  his 
memory.  This  remark  brought  forth  cheers.  The  Ninth, 
Father  Slocum  said,  was  made  up  of  men  who  came  to 
this  country  with  the  idea  of  seeking  a  home  and  to  enjoy 
the  liberty  that  was  denied  them  in  their  native  land. 
They  debated  the  question  of  the  North  and  South  as 
others  debated  it  and  when  the  time  came  to  decide  be- 
tween loyalty  and  treason,  they  chose  the  side  of  loyalty 
and  no  braver  fighters  ever  went  to  the  front  than  those 
of  the  gallant  Ninth. 

Following  Father  Slocum's  oration,  Col.  Richard 
Fitz  Gibbon  presented  the  monument  to  the  city  of  New 
Haven  and  to  Mayor  Studley  as  the  city's  chief  executive. 

Mayor  Studley  in  his  reply  of  acceptance  said:  "In 
behalf  of  the  city  of  New  Haven  it  is  my  privilege  to 
accept  this  memorial.  I  thank  you  and  your  committee 
and  all  others  who  have  assisted  in  making  the  gift  pos- 
sible. 

"New  Haven  is  not  without  historic  places.  The  west- 
ern part  of  the  city  was  the  scene  of  an  invasion  by 
British  troops  during  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  On 
West  Rock  is  Judges'  Cave ;  across  the  bay  lie  the  two  old 
forts,  Wooster  and  Hale.  And  on  the  waters  of  New 


386    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Haven  harbor  once  rode  a  hostile  fleet,  the  thunder  of 
whose  guns  reverberated,  shaking  the  ground  where  we 
are  now  assembled. 

"The  establishment  of  this  memorial  marks  another 
place  never  to<  be  forgotten.  It  seems  fitting,  therefore, 
that  the  memorial  should  be  erected  upon  this  park, 
which  is  a  portion  of  the  old  camp  ground  where  the 
Ninth  regiment  assembled  in  1861,  when  President  Lin- 
coln issued  the  call  for  300,000  volunteers.  It  was  hert 
that  the  men  who  formed  the  regiment  assembled.  Here 
they  perfected  their  company  and  regimental  organiza- 
tion. 

"Here  they  were  drilled  and  began  to  know  the  hard- 
ships of  a  soldier's  life.  Here  they  became  messmates 
and  shared  the  same  rations,  and  here  they  gathered 
about  the  campfires  and  sang.  On  November  4,  1861, 
the  regiment  bade  farewell  to  those  near  and  dear  to 
them,  and  in  the  cases  of  many  of  them  it  was  to  be  the 
last  farewell.  They  formed  their  lines  for  the  last  time  on 
these  grounds,  passed  out  the  old  gate  and  marched 
down  the  street  and  took  the  cars  on  their  way  to  the 
war. 

"The  Ninth  regiment  was  composed  chiefly  of  men  of 
Irish  descent.  That  race  is  famed  the  world  over  for  its 
love  of  liberty,  its  hatred  of  oppression,  and  for  its  gen- 
erous sacrifice  of  property  and  life  to  get  freedom.  The 
Ninth  made  a  gallant  record  throughout  the  war,  its  of- 
ficers and  men  serving  with  bravery  and  heroism. 

"The  city  of  New  Haven  has  a  special  interest  in  the 
Ninth  regiment,  for  many  of  its  officers  and  men  were 
residents  here.  Colonel  Cahill,  the  first  commandant  of 
the  regiment,  was  long  one  of  our  prominent  citizens,  and 
Lieut.  Col.  Healy,  who  brought  back  the  battalion  from 
the  war,  is  known  to  all  of  us.  Among  the  survivors  of 
the  Ninth  are  some  of  our  best  citizens  of  to-day. 

"Mr.  President  of  the  Park  Commission :  Having  ac- 
cepted this  memorial  on  behalf  of  the  city,  it  now  becomes 


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my  duty  to  place  it  in  your  care.  I  charge  you  to  guard 
and  preserve  it  well." 

Gen.  Phelps  Montgomery  gracefully  accepted  the  mon- 
ument for  the  park  commission.  The  closing  prayer  was 
then  offered  by  the  Rev.  Watson  L.  Phillips,  and  the 
exercises  were  concluded. 

Later,  lunch  was  served  the  veterans  in  Music  Hall,  on 
Court  street.  Outside,  the  streets  were  enlivened  by  the 
marching  of  visiting  organizations  and  the  city  resounded 
with  the  music  of  the  bands  of  the  latter.  While  special 
trains  brought  many  excursionists  to  the  city  the  number 
would  have  been  vastly  greater  had  better  weather  con- 
ditions prevailed.  Notwithstanding  the  drawbacks,  how- 
ever, the  celebration  was  an  unqualified  success. 

An  editorial  in  the  New  Haven  Union,  Aug.  5,  paid  the 
following  tribute :  "The  record  of  the  Ninth  regiment  in 
the  war  of  the  rebellion  was  one  of  which  every  Irishman 
can  well  feel  proud.  It  was  a  record  of  bravery  that 
knew  no  limit,  of  determination  that  knew  no  flinching. 
The  men  left  this  city  where  the  regiment  was  formed, 
with  colors  flying  and  never  once  in  the  fierce  fighting 
that  followed,  in  the  battling  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Union,  were  those  colors  lowered  to  the  enemy.  It  was 
known  as  the  Fighting  Ninth,  a.  brave,  resolute,  set  of 
men,,  which  any  city  might  well  regard  with  enthusiasm 
and  admiration. 

"It  is  fitting  that  New  Haven  should  honor  the  gallant 
Ninth,  *  *  *  and  their  acts  of  heroism  should  never 
be  forgotten.  The  monument  which  was  unveiled  this 
morning  in  honor  of  this  plucky  band  of  fighters,  is  in  a 
way  a  fitting  testimonial  to  men  who  faced  the  southern 
bullets,  took  their  lives  in  their  hands,  that  Uncle  Sam's 
flag  should  float  over  a  united  country.  On  that  monu- 
ment is  printed  the  two  hundred  and  fifty  odd  names  of 
those  who  fell  in  *  *  *  the  glorious  cause  of  the 
Union.  It  is  the  roll  of  honor,  the  list  of  heroes,  the  brave 
and  the  true,  whose  lives  went  up  on  the  altar  of  their 

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country  that  there  might  be  an  undivided  land  for  the 
American  people. 

"Such  deeds  of  heroism  should  never  go  unrecognized, 
and  when  the  survivors  of  the  Ninth  decided  to  erect  a 
monument  to  commemorate  the  deeds  of  valor  that  make 
glorious  and  noble  the  life  of  the  soldier,  they  took  a  step 
that  met  with  universal  approval.  New  Haven  extends 
a  warm  welcome  to  those  who  gathered  here  to-day  to 
participate  in  the  ceremonies  incidental  to  the  unveiling 
of  the  monument  to  the  memory  of  the  heroes  of  the 
Ninth.  It  was  a  day  that  will  not  be  forgotten  or  quickly 
pass  from  the  minds  of  those  who  directly  or  indirectly 
took  part  in  those  interesting  memorial  exercises." 

The  New  Haven  Register,  Aug.  5,  paid  the  following 
graceful  editorial  tribute:  "To-day  witnessed  the  cul- 
mination of  months  of  conference  and  agitation  on  the 
part  of  veterans  of  the  gallant  Ninth  regiment.  When  it 
was  first  concluded  to  erect  a  monument  in  memory  of 
their  command  there  was  an  immediate  response  from 
those  who  are  familiar  and  in  sympathy  with  the  efforts 
everywhere  made  to  immortalize  the  self-sacrifices  of  the 
men  who  responded  so  enthusiastically  to  the  President's 
call  for  troops,,  when  secession  reared  its  head  in  the 
country  and  threatened  the  life  of  the  Union. 

"The  undertaking  had  its  days  of  doubt  and  worry,  as 
all  such  efforts  have,  and  will  have,  so  long  as  men  add 
to  the  toil  of  bread-winning  that  of  unselfish  performance. 
In  a  way  it  would  be  unfortunate  if  it  were  otherwise,  for 
after  all  has  been  said  and  done  which  can  be  said  and 
done,  there  is  a  greater  satisfaction  to  be  taken  in  the 
culmination  of  work  which  requires  the  thought  of  many 
heads  and  the  toil  of  many  hands.  This  can  be  truly  said 
of  the  monument  which  was  unveiled  to-day,  and  which  is 
not  the  work  of  a  single  man,  but  of  the  regiment  and  its 
friends. 

"We  have  written  enough  of  the  deeds  of  the  Ninth 
regiment.  W^hat  it  did  has  passed  into  history  with  a 


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complete  roster  of  its  officers  and  men.  The  monument 
which  is  now  among  the  interesting  possessions  of  the 
city,  and  which  is  to  endure  as  long  as  the  granite  of 
which  it  is  made  endures,  begins  a  new  chapter  as  it  is  to 
be  written  in  the  interest  and  affection  of  the  generations 
which  are  to  follow,  and  to  view  the  work  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  as  we  view  the  work  of  the  Conti- 
nental army. 

"It  will  have  no  familiar  faces  to  which  to  turn  in  order 
to  intensify  and  personify  its  impressions.  The  actors  in 
that  dark  tragedy  will  all  have  gone  the  way  of  mortals, 
and  there  will  stand  the  shaft  of  granite  to  typify  a  phase 
of  life  in  the  young  republic,  which  time  has  justified. 
By  those  who  come  after  the  survivors  of  the  regiment  it 
will  be  viewed  as  we  view  a  historic  spot  which  is  marked 
with  a  tablet  of  bronze.  A  few  will  be  led  to  look  up  the 
immediate  record  of  the  regiment,  but  the  great  majority 
will  regard  it  as  one  of  the  milestones  of  the  country,  and 
fall  to  reflecting  upon  the  significance  of  the  events  in 
which  the  Ninth  was  involved.  In  that  way  it  will  serve 
the  only  purpose  such  memorials  ought  to  serve. 

"But  in  addition  to  the  testimony  which  this  monument 
will  bear  to  the  men  of  future  generations  of  the  deeds 
performed  and  the  sacrifices  made  for  the  Union  by  their 
predecessors,  it  will  stand  as  a  complete  assurance  of  the 
power  of  this  republic  to  assimilate  those  of  a  different 
race,  reared  under  different  social  and  political  conditions. 
In  a  large  way  it  will  stand  as  a  striking  memorial  of  the 

loyalty  of  the  Irish  race  to  the  country  of  their  adoption, 

*     *     * 

"Of  especial  interest  will  it  ever  be  to  the  children  of 
those  who  were  among  the  enlisted  men  of  the  regiment. 
Already  the  young  men  of  Irish  extraction,  who  are  in 
many  instances  the  grandsons  of  the  early  immigrant, 
are  as  much  the  product  of  the  country  and  types  of  its 
life  as  if  they  were  descended  from  the  hardy  voyagers  on 
the  Mayflower.  The  traditions  of  the  race  from  which 


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they  sprung  are  as  impersonal  to  them  as  the  traditions 
of  the  Dutch  race  are  impersonal  to  the  President  of  the 
United  States.  They  will,  as  they  should,  forever  pay 
honor  to  the  fatherland  and  observe  the  various  days 
which  are  associated  with  its  history  and  calendar,  but  it 
will  be  with  particular  satisfaction  that  they  gaze  upon 
the  granite  figure  in  Bay  View  park  which  represents  the 
devotion  of  the  Irish  to  this  country.  It  will  keep  their 
Americanism  strong  and  pure,  without  in  the  least  affect- 
ing, to  its  disadvantage,  the  spirit  of  their  race. 

"The  more  monuments  there  are  commemorating  the 
unselfish  deeds  of  the  citizens  of  this  country  the  better 
it  will  be  for  the  country  itself.  Even  within  the  relatively 
short  space  of  time  which  separates  the  civil  rebellion 
from  to-day  there  has  been  such  a  social  and  industrial 
revolution  that  we  can  be  said  to  be  living  under  entirely 
different  conditions.  If  life  in  this  republic  has  been  made 
easier  to  live,  it  has  not  escaped  being  made  more  compli- 
cated. The  problems  which  we  have  to  meet  are  just  as 
great,  and  in  some  respects  more  varied,  than  those  which 
shafts  of  this  character  recall. 

"Brave  men  who  loved  their  country  more  than  they 
loved  their  homes  left  the  latter  to  serve  the  former.  It 
would  be  a  very  superficial  view  of  existing  responsibil- 
ities which  should  to-day  contend  that  men  of  equal 
loyalty  and  devotion  are  less  needed.  The  demands  of 
human  nature,  as  expressed  to-day,  call  for  the  highest 
employment  of  unselfish  qualities,  those  of  the  mind  as 
well  as  those  of  the  heart.  There  is  little  prospect  that  we 
shall  soon  require  again  the  services  of  the  young  and 
strenuous  in  the  field  of  battle,  but  there  is  abundant  evi- 
dence that  the  world  of  commerce  and  of  politics  require 
the  services  of  the  young  and  honest. 

"To  our  mind,  in  addition  to  the  testimony  which  this 
Ninth  regiment  monument  will  bear  to  the  courage  and 
loyalty  of  that  command,  it  will  be  valuable  in  constantly 
reminding  the  citizens  of  New  Haven  of  their  duty  to 


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their  own  community.  A  monument  which  is  content  to 
end  its  usefulness  with  commemoration  of  the  past  pos- 
sesses but  little  value.  The  monument  which  serves  the 
double  purpose  of  honoring  the  past  and  stimulating1  the 
present,  by  very  force  of  its  example,  is  in  its  way  to  be 
included  among  the  educational  forces  of  the  city.  That 
this  may  be  the  mission  of  the  monument  which  has  been 
unveiled  to-day  is  our  profound  hope.  In  the  meantime 
we  have  only  congratulations  for  those  who  have  brought 
this  work  to  its  completion." 

Among  the  many  interesting  communications  received 
by  the  committee  of  arrangements  was  the  following : 


OFFICE  OF  WASHINGTON  CAMP,  No.  8, 
PATRIOTIC  ORDER  SONS  OF  AMERICA, 
STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT, 
NEW  HAVEN,  CONN.,  Aug.  i,  1903. 

Lieut -Col.  John  G.  Healy,  President  Ninth  Regiment  Asso- 
ciation, and  to  the  Veterans  of  the  Old  Ninth, 

GREETING  : 

Your  invitation  of  July  2ist  was  received  with  pleasure 
and  satisfaction  by  this  Camp.  In  reply  would  state  that 
we  accept  this  invitation,  but  as  many  of  our  members 
are  connected  with  various  Veteran  Associations,  and  as 
we  have  tried  to  arrange  for  a  joint  demonstration,  and 
failed,  we  offer  this  as  an  excuse  for  not  advising  you 
sooner. 

We  are  with  you  in  heart  and  spirit  and  regret  that  as 
a  body  we  shall  not  be  properly  represented  in  the  parade. 

Yours  sincerely, 
[Official  Seal]  CHAS.  E.  SERVISS, 

Rec.  Sec'y. 


The  Naugatuck,  Ct,  News,  Aug.  5,  notes  that:  "In  the 
midst  of  a  drizzling  rain  the  Hibernian  Rifle  Company, 
the  St.  Francis  T.  A.  B.  Drum  Corps,  members  of  Isbell 
Post,  G.  A.  R.,  the  Y.  M.  Catholic  Institute  and  the 


392    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Naugatuck  Drum  Corps,  left  on  a  special  train  for  New 
Haven  this  morning  to  take  part  in  the  ceremonies  at- 
tending the  unveiling  of  the  Ninth  Regiment  monument 
in  New  Haven  to-day.  The  military  men  were  in  full 
uniform  and  the  Y.  M.  C.  I.  wore  white  caps  and  carried 
canes  and  white  umbrellas." 

Among  those  participating  in  the  exercises  at  Bay 
View  park  and,  later,  in  the  armory,  where  many  members 
of  the  American-Irish  Historical  Society  from  Boston, 
Providence,  New  York  and  other  cities.  The  headquar- 
ters of  the  Society  were  at  the  Tontine  Hotel,  Church 
street.  The  Society  received  a  hearty  welcome  to  the 
city  and  was  the  recipient  of  many  hospitalities  during 
its  stay.  Among  the  invitations  received  and  accepted 
was  the  following: 


KNIGHTS  OF  ST.  PATRICK, 

NEW  HAVEN,  CONN.,  July  18,  1903. 

Mr.  T.  H.  Murray,    Secretary  American-Irish  Historical 
Society, 

DEAR  SIR  : 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the  Knights 
of  St.  Patrick  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  held  on  July  17, 
1903,  it  was  unanimously  voted  that  the  freedom  of  the 
club  house  be  tendered  to  the  members  of  the  American- 
Irish  Historical  Society  and  its  friends  on  Aug.  5,  1903. 
The  Knights  will  be  pleased  to  meet  the  members  of  the 
Society  and  trust  the  latter  will  be  able  to  accept  this  in- 
vitation. 

"Open  house"  all  day  from  7  a.  m. 
Very  truly  yours, 

J.  F.  SULLIVAN,  M.D., 

Recording  Secretary. 


During  the  day  and  evening  delegations  from  the  So- 
ciety visited  the  handsome  club-house  of  the  Knights  and 
were  hospitably  entertained. 


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The  Society  had  also  received  an  invitation,  through 
the  Hon.  Eli  Whitney,  from  the  New  Haven  Colony 
Historical  Society  to  visit  the  rooms  of  the  latter  on 
Grove  street.  This  invitation  was  likewise  accepted. 
Benjamin  R.  English,  representing  the  last  named  organ- 
ization, called  at  the  Tontine  early  in  the  day,  Aug.  5, 
and  arranged  with  Secretary  Murray  for  the  visit. 
In  the  afternoon,  Edward  C.  Beecher  of  the  New  Haven 
Colony  Historical  Society  arrived  for  the  purpose  of 
escorting  the  members  of  the  American-Irish  Historical 
Society  to  the  rooms  of  the  former  organization.  At  2 
p.  m.,  the  line  was  formed  and,  headed  by  Mr.  Beecher 
and  the  Hon.  William  McAdoo,  President-General  of  the 
A.  I.  H.  S.,  proceeded  across  the  city  green  to  the  place 
mentioned. 

Here  the  visitors  were  received  by  Mr.  English,  above 
mentioned,  Richard  F.  Lyon  and  Ralph  O.  Williams. 
After  inscribing  their  names  in  the  visitors'  book,  the 
guests  were  escorted  through  the  spacious  building  and 
shown  the  Society's  collections  of  portraits,  books  and 
historical  curiosities.  An  hour  was  thus  pleasantly  spent, 
and  the  visitors  then  took  their  departure  highly  pleased 
with  their  call. 

Later  in  the  afternoon,  the  Hon.  C.  T.  Driscoll,  Ex- 
Mayor  of  New  Haven,  escorted  a  delegation  of  the 
American-Irish  Historical  Society  through  the  grounds 
and  leading  buildings  of  Yale  University  and  entertained 
them  at  the  Graduates'  Club. 

The  Society's  dinner  in  the  evening  was  a  splendid 
affair.  It  was  preceded  by  a  reception  at  which  were 
present  the  Hon.  John  D.  Crimmins,  of  New  York,  with 
his  guest,  Gen.  Coppinger;  the  Hon.  Eli  Whitney,  of 
New  Haven,  and  many  other  prominent  people.  Mr. 
Crimmins  and  Gen.  Coppinger  were  unable  to  remain  for 
the  dinner,  being  obliged  to  leave  town  on  an  early  train. 

Rev.  Thomas  J.  Finn,  of  Port  Chester,  Ct.,  and  Rod- 
erick J.  Kennedy,  of  New  York  city,  two  members  of  the 


394 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


Society,  were  also  unable  to  wait  for  the  dinner  and  left 
for  home  at  an  early  hour. 

The  dinner  began  about  8  p.  m.  The  Hon.  William 
McAdoo,  of  New  York,  president-general  of  the  Society, 
presided.  Grace  was  said  by  the  Rev.  Christopher 
Hughes,  D.D.,  of  Fall  River,  Mass.  An  orchestra  was 
in  attendance  and  furnished  music  during  the  repast.  The 
following  was  the 


MENU. 

Little  Neck  Clams. 

Radishes.  Olives. 

Soft  Shell  Crabs  on  Toast, 

Tartare  Sauce. 
Sweetbread  Patties. 

French  Peas. 
Tenderloin  of  Beef. 

Saratoga  Chips. 
BENEDICTINE  PUNCH. 

Broiled  Spring  Chicken, 
Currant  Jelly. 
String  Beans. 

Mixed  Salad,  French  Dressing. 
Neapolitan  Ice  Cream. 

Cheese.  Crackers. 

Coffee. 


Among  those  present  in  addition  to  President  McAdoo 
and  Father  Hughes,  were  the  following: 

Hon.  Abiram  Chamberlain,  Governor  of  Connecticut. 
Hon.  John  P.  Studley,  Mayor  of  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Hon.  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  ex-Governor  of  Connecti- 
cut. 

Gen.  James  R.  O'Beirne,  New  York  City. 


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Hon.  Alexander  Harbison,  ex-Mayor  of  Hartford,  Ct. 
Hon.  Thomas  J.  Gargan,  Boston,  Mass. 
Hon.  John  F.  Hurley,  ex-Mayor  of  Salem,  Mass. 
Hon.  Eli  Whitney,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Hon.  Jeremiah  O'Rourke,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Hon.  N.  D.  Sperry,  M.  C,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Hon.  C.  T.  Driscoll,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Hon.  William  Kennedy,  Naugatuck,  Ct. 
Hon.  James  P.  Bree,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Hon.  Edward  Griswold,  Guilford,  Ct. 
Hon.  Thomas  Z.  Lee,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Col.  John  G.  Healy,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gibbon,  Bridgeport,  Ct. 
Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Gen.  Phelps  Montgomery,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Major  John  Q.  Tilson,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Thomas  Hamilton  Murray,  Boston,  Mass. 
John  J.  Cassidy,  Wilmington,  Del. 
Col.  Watson  J.  Miller,  Shelton,  Ct. 
James  Jeffrey  Roche,  LL.D.,  Editor  of  the  Pilot,  Bos- 
ton, Mass. 

William  P.  Connery,  Lynn,  Mass. 
John  F.  McAlevy,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 
Michael  P.  Coen,  Naugatuck,  Ct. 
Joseph  R.  Hall,  Naugatuck,  Ct. 
James  O'Flaherty,  New  York  City. 
Stephen  J.  Richardson,  New  York  City. 
Daniel  Colwell,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
John  A.  O'Keefe,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Patrick  Kiernan,  New  York  City. 
Bernard  J.  Joyce,  Boston,  Mass. 
J.  W.  Donovan,  New  York  City. 
John  F.  Hayes,  M.D.,  Waterbury,  Ct. 
John  O'Flaherty,  M.D.,  Hartford,  Ct. 
D.  F.  Donoghoe,  M.D.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Thomas  M.  Cahill,  M.D.,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Stephen  J.  Maher,  M.D.,  New  Haven,  Ct. 


396    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

W.  J.  Sheehan,  M.D.,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
M.  C.  O'Connor,  M.D.,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
E.  M.  McCabe,  M.D.,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
James  Curran,  New  York  City. 
T.  P.  Kelly,  New  York  City. 
Bernard  E.  Lynch,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
James  F.  Brennan,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Michael  E.  Hennessy,  Boston,  Mass. 
John  Jerome  Rooney,  New  York  City. 
Col.  George  E.  Albee,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Maurice  Fitz  Gibbon,  New  York  City. 
James  Mark  Sullivan,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
James  E.  McGann,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
James  Reilly,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Capt.  John  J.  Coffey,  Boston,  Mass. 
Major  Patrick  Maher,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
James  R.  Maxwell,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Edward  L.  Hearn,  South  Framingham,  Mass. 
M.  W.  Leahy,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
J.  E.  McPartland,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Wm.  M.  Geary,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Thomas  W.  Keenan,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
E.  J.  Monohan,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Edward  J.  Moriarty,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Patrick  J.  Cronin,  New  Haven,  Ct. 

Of  the  foregoing,  Hon.  John  F.  Hurley,  served  in  the 
Fourth  Massachusetts  Light  Battery  during  the  civil  war. 
Capt.  John  J.  Coffey  served  in  the  Twenty-eighth  Mas- 
sachusetts Infantry,  an  Irish  command.  Col.  Richard 
Fitz  Gibbon,  Col.  John  G.  Healy,  Capt.  Lawrence 
O'Brien,  and  Michael  P.  Coen  served  in  the  Ninth 
Connecticut  regiment.  Gen.  James  R.  O'Beirne  held 
every  commissioned  rank  up  to  Bvt.  Brig.  Gen.  of 
Volunteers.  He  was  Provost  Marshal,  District  of 
Columbia ;  Deputy  U.  S.  Marshal,  D.  C. ;  Register  of 
Wills,  D.  C. ;  Editor  Sunday  Gazette,  Washington,  D.  C. ; 


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Special  Agent  U.  S.  Indian  affairs ;  Special  Agent  U.  S. 
Treasury  Dept. ;  Asst.  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Immigra- 
tion at  New  York  city ;  Commissioner  of  Charities,  New 
York  city;  Commander  U.  S.  Medal  of  Honor 
Legion.  In  business  life  he  has  been  President  of  the 
Yonkers  Electric  Light  Co. ;  Secretary  of  the  Flemington 
Coal  and  Coke  Co.  of  West  Virginia,  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Manhattan  Distilling  Co.  Major  Patrick  Maher  served, 
during  the  Civil  War,  as  Major  of  the  Twenty-Fourth 
Connecticut  regiment.  It  will  be  seen,  therefore,  that  the 
military  element  was  well  represented  at  the  dinner. 

After  full  justice  had  been  done  the  choice  viands  com- 
prised in  the  menu,  cigars  were  lighted  and  the  post  pran- 
dial exercises  began.  President  McAdoo  felicitously 
opened  the  speech  making.  He  was  formerly  a  member 
of  Congress,  and  was  also  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  U. 
S.  Navy.  He  dwelt  upon  the  objects  of  the  American- 
Irish  Historical  Society,  and  upon  the  part  taken  by  men 
of  Irish  blood  in  building,  defending  and  perpetuating 
the  republic.  He  thanked  Governor  Chamberlain, 
Mayor  Studley  and  the  other  guests  for  their  attendance, 
and  said  that  the  Society  was  proud  to  honor,  by  its 
presence  in  New  Haven,  the  gallant  Ninth  Connecticut 
and  the  surviving  veterans  of  the  latter.  He  next  spoke 
of  traits  of  character  of  the  Irish  and  the  reasons  why  the 
people  of  Ireland  are  termed  a  military  race.  He  then 
introduced  Governor  Chamberlain. 

The  Governor  was  cordially  greeted  and  delivered  a 
very  interesting  address,  in  the  course  of  which  he  paid  a 
tribute  to  the  services  rendered  this  country  by  the  Irish- 
man. 

Mayor  Studley  was  the  next  speaker.  He  also  paid 
an  eloquent  tribute  to  the  Irish  element,  and  dealt  with 
the  history  and  career  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut.  Con- 
tinuing, he  said :  "The  Irishman  is  known  as  a  generous 
man  throughout  the  world.  If  he  is  your  friend  he  is  a 
generous  friend,  and  if  he  is  your  enemy  he  is  a  generous 


398    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

enemy."  In  closing,  the  mayor  welcomed  the  society  to 
the  city,  and  said  that  the  people  were  glad  to  have  it 
meet  here. 

Congressman  Sperry  was  then  introduced.  He  said 
in  substance :  "I  think  it  proper  for  every  race  element 
among  us,  if  it  thinks  it  is  not  properly  recognized,  to  de- 
mand recognition,  and  as  I  understand  the  purpose  of 
this  society,  it  is  to  present  to  the  public  the  gallant  deeds 
of  the  Irish  in  this  country.  We  are  indebted  to  the  Irish 
people,  who  did  so  much  in  1776,  1812  and  1861  to  keep 
this  country  one  and  inseparable.  This  is  a  peculiar 
country  made  up  of  all  nationalities,  and  every  man  has 
his  duty  to  perform.  The  Irish  race  has  done  much  to 
help  us  firmly  plant  the  banner  of  liberty.  It  is  an  honor 
to  be  one  of  those  to  stand  and  defend  his  country." 

Hon.  Thomas  J.  Gargan  was  the  next  speaker.  He 
said  in  substance :  "The  Irish  are  probably  greater  emi- 
grants to  this  glorious  country  than  any  other  race,  and 
we  have  done  our  part  in  making  this  country's  history. 
There  was  a  time  when  Irishmen  were  forbidden  to  bear 
arms,  yet  when  the  call  came  they  generously  gave  their 
lives.  We  are  not  permitted  to  take  a  part  in  great  wars, 
but  we  honor  those  of  our  race  who  did.  There  are  new 
days  before  us ;  shall  we  not  act  in  a  manly  manner  and 
defend  our  country's  principles?  We  have  been  honor- 
ing to-day  the  memory  of  those  who  have  helped  to  per- 
petuate the  Union.  We  have  a  great  battle  to  fight,  that 
of  living  the  lives  of  honest  and  straightforward  citizens." 

Col.  John  G.  Healy,  of  the  Ninth,  was  then  introduced 
and  made  an  eloquent  response.  He  alluded  to  the  part 
taken  by  the  regiment  in  the  war,  and  spoke  of  the  mon- 
ument unveiled  to-day  and  its  significance.  He  thanked 
the  Historical  Society  for  coming  to  New  Haven  to 
honor  the  day,  and  hoped  that  the  organization  would 
again  visit  the  city  at  some  time  in  the  near  future. 

Gen.  James  R.  O'Beirne  complimented  the  veterans  of 
the  Ninth  on  their  patriotism  in  erecting  the  monument 


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we  have  to-day  dedicated.  He  then  spoke  of  the  work 
in  which  the  Historical  Society  is  engaged,  and  dwelt 
upon  the  importance  of  recording  the  history  of  the  Irish 
in  this  country.  "Outside  of  military  matters,"  said  he, 
"there  should  also  be  something  in  the  shape  of  letters. 
We  may  appropriately,  this  evening,  in  this  patriotic  city 
and  state,  stand  for  letters  as  well  as  for  arms." 

Among  the  other  speakers  were  Capt.  Lawrence 
O'Brien,  Ex-Governor  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley  and  Hon.  C. 
T.  Dnscoll.  John  F.  Hayes,  M.D.,  recited  "Sheridan's 
Ride,"  in  an  excellent  manner  and,  soon  after,  the  exer- 
cises closed. 

During  the  evening,  the  following  poem  was  handed  in 
for  recitation,  but  owing  to  the  lateness  of  the  hour  it  was 
omitted : 


HIS  LAST  MARCH. 
W.  D.  Nesbit  in  Chicago^  Tribune. 

[John  T.  Mason,  seventy-four  years  old,  a  veteran  of 
the  civil  war,  was  heard  one  night  singing  "While  We 
Were  Marching  Through  Georgia."  Next  morning  he 
was  found  lifeless  in  his  bed.  A  physician  who  was  called 
stated  that  the  old  man  must  have  died  about  the  time  the 
song  was  heard  by  the  others  in  the  house.] 

"Bring  the  good  old  bugle,  boys,  we'll  sing  another 
song!" 

He  heard  the  far-off  chorus  as  his  comrades  marched 
along ; 

He  heard  the  clank  of  sabrCj  and  the  jangling  bit  and 
spur, 

The  rumbling  of  the  cannons,  where  his  shouting  mess- 
mates were; 

He  heard  the  hurried  hoofbeats  of  the  horses  mettlesome  ; 

And  high  above  he  saw  the  flag  that  beckoned  him  :  "O, 
come !" 


4oo    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

He  saw  them  swing  along  the  road — not  graybeards, 
slow  and  bent, 

Ah,  no !    He  saw  the  boyish  ranks  of  his  old  regiment. 

With  rhythmic  tread  it  held  its  line,  with  fifers  piping 
shrill : 

He  saw  the  ragged  colors,  that  were  waving  to  him  still ; 

And  calling — calling — calling,  came  the  rolling  of  the 
drum: 

"Fall  in !  Fall  in  for  dress  parade !  The  ranks  are  wait- 
ing. Come !" 

The  line  wheeled  when  it  iieared  him,  and  as  in  the  light 
of  noon 

He  saw  the  forms  of  comrades  who  across  the  South  were 
strewn ; 

He  saw  the  brave  companion  who  had  battled  by  his 
side — 

The  tears  welled  up  again  just  as  they  did  the  day  he 
died. 

Then,  ''Halt !"  the  bugles  sounded,  and  he  heard  his  war- 
time chief 

Call  in  his  kindest,  clearest  tones:  "This  is  the  last 
relief!" 

"March  on!"     The  flag  was  waving   and    the    soldiers 

marched  away; 
And  he  went  singing  with  them,  far  beyond  the  Gates  of 

Day, 
The  bugles  pealing  gladly  and  the   line  with   no   more 

gaps— 

The  bugles  singing  sweetly  in  that  benison  of  "Taps." 
And  fifes  were  mad  and  merry,  and  the  drums  were 

laughing,  too. 
For  he  marched  beside  the  colors  as  he  led  the  grand 

review !  

The  following  members  of  the  American-Irish  Histori- 
cal Society  sent  letters  expressive  of  regret  at  inability  to 
be  present  at  the  dinner : 

Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  J.  Conaty,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Los 
Angeles,  Cal. 

Hon.  John  C.  Linehan,  State  Insurance  Commissioner 
of  New  Hampshire. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  4OI 

Hon.  John  H.  H.  McNamee,  Mayor  of  Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Cyrus  Townsend  Brady,  LL.D.,  New  York  City. 

Rev.  James  Coyle,  Taunton,  Mass. 

James  EL  Sullivan,  M.D.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Col.  James  Moran,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Samuel  Adams,  New  York  City. 

Joseph  P.  Flatley,  Boston,  Mass. 

P.  F.  Magrath,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

Hon.  P.  T.  Barry,  Chicago,  111. 

Michael  Gavin,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

J.  F.  Hynes,  Lexington,  Ky. 

William  Giblin,  New  York  City. 

Michael  J.  Ward,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Dr.  George  McAleer,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Very  Rev.  M.  C.  Lenihan,  Marshalltown,  Iowa. 

Rev.  Edward  J.  McGolrick,  New  York  City. 

Timothy  F.  Luddy,  Waterbury,  Ct. 

Patrick  J.  McCarthy,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Col.  James  Quinlan,  New  York  City. 

Prof.  J.  C.  Monaghan,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Dr.  Thomas  E.  Maloney,  Fall  River,  Mass. 

John  F.  O'Rourke,  New  York  City. 

M.  Joseph  Harson,  Providence,  R.  I. 

W.  H.  Mahony,  New  York  City. 

Col.  James  Moran's  letter  was  as  follows  : 

PROVIDENCE,  R.  I.,  July  20,  1903. 
THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY,  ESQ., 

Secretary  General, 

HUMAROCK  BEACH,  SEA  VIEW,  MASS. 
DEAR  SIR: 

Your  notice  of  June  10,  and  postal  of  I5th  inst,  calling 
the  members'  attention  to  the  coming  annual  Field  Day 
of  the  American-Irish  Historical  Society,  to  be  held  at 
New  Haven,  this  year,  on  Aug.  5,  duly  received. 


402    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Owing  to  the  uncertainty  of  my  getting  away  from 
here,  on  account  of  business,  at  that  particular  time,  I 
have  not  answered  till  now.  Even  now,  much  as  I  desire 
to  go,  I  cannot  say  for  certain  whether  I  can  get  away. 
If  it  is  possible  for  me  to  be  present  I  will  be  on  hand  at 
the  proper  time  ;  as,  together  with  the  pleasure  of  meeting 
the  members  of  the  Society,  the  additional  pleasure  of 
meeting  two  old  comrades  of  Fenian  Days,  as  well  as 
army  comrades — members  of  the  Committee  of  Arrange- 
ments and  old  residents  of  New  Haven — Col.  Healy  and 
Capt.  O'Brien,  whom  I  have  not  seen  for  several  years, 
would  be  afforded  me. 

Yours  truly, 

JAMES  Mo  RAN. 

The  following  letters  were  also  received : 

FROM  U.  S.  SENATOR  PLAIT,  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

WASHINGTON,  CONN.,  July  28,  1903. 

MR.  THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY, 

HUMAROCK  BEACH,  SEA  VIEW,  MASS. 

MY  DEAR  SIR: 

Returning  from  the  Adirondacks,  I  find  your  letter, 
written  July  19,  inviting  me  to  be  the  guest  of  the  Ameri- 
can-Irish Historical  Society,  at  a  dinner  to  be  given  on 
the  evening  of  August  5,  at  the  Tontine  Hotel,  New 
Haven.  Unless  other  arrangements  have  been  made  for 
me  for  that  evening  by  the  Veteran  Association  of  the 
Ninth  Connecticut  Infantry,  I  shall  be  glad  to  comply 
with  your  invitation. 

I  shall  be  in  New  Haven,  August  5,  on  the  occasion  of 
the  dedication  of  the  Ninth  regiment  monument,  by  invi- 
tation, and  must  of  course,  hold  myself  subject  to  their 
wishes. 

Sincerely  yours, 

O.  H.  PLATT. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863. 
ANOTHER  LETTER  FROM  U.  S.  SENATOR  PLATT. 

MR.  THOMAS  HAMILTON  MURRAY, 

HUMAROCK  BEACH,  SEA  VIEW,  MASS. 
MY  DEAR  SIR: 

Confirming  my  telegram  of  this  date,  saying  that  I 
find  it  will  be  impossible  for  me  to  attend  the  dinner  to 
be  given  on  the  evening  of  August  5,  at  the  Tontine 
Hotel,  New  Haven,  by  the  American-Irish  Historical 
Society,  complimentary  to  the  Ninth  Regiment,  I  explain 
more  fully  by  saying  that  I  find  it  is  imperative  that  I 
return  to  my  home  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day. 

With  expressions  of  sincere  regret,  I  am 

Very  truly  yours, 

O.  H.  PLATT. 
WASHINGTON,  CONN.,  August  i,  1903. 


FROM  THE  HON.   H.   WALES   LINES. 

MERTDEN,  CT.,  Aug.  6,  1903. 
MR.  M.  P.  COEN, 

Naugatuck,  Ct. 
DEAR  MR.  COEN  : 

It  would  have  been  very  pleasant  and  interesting  to 
attend  the  banquet  of  the  American-Irish  Historical  So- 
ciety at  the  Tontine  Hotel  last  evening,  but  after  leaving 
you  it  became  necessary  for  me  to  return  to  Meriden 
early  in  the  evening  and  hence  I  was  obliged  to  forego 
that  pleasure. 

It  was  most  unfortunate  that  the  storm  so  entirely 
changed  your  Committee's  plans.  Had  the  day  been  fair, 
the  Ninth  C.  V.,  memorial  celebration  would  have  been 
one  of  the  most  impressive  events  that  has  occurred  in 
this  State  within  our  recollection. 

Nevertheless,  it  was  a  grand  demonstration.  The 
large  attendance  of  Connecticut  people ;  the  presence  of 

27 


4o4    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

the  Ninth  C.  V.  veterans,  the  splendid  address  of  Father 
Slocum,  and  other  details  of  the  programme,  were  all  of 
a  character  to  be  remembered  by  every  man  who  loves  his 
State  and  Country  whose  good  fortune  it  was  to  hear  or 
know  what  was  said  and  done.  I  wish  that  the  oration 
might  be  read  and  understood  by  every  man  in  our  good 
old  State. 

Appreciating  fully  all  the  courtesy  and  attention  ex- 
tended to  me  by  yourself  and  other  members  of  your 
Committee,  with  assurance  of  my  warm  personal  esteem, 
I  remain, 

Sincerely  yours, 

H.  WALES  LINES. 

The  New  Haven  Register,  in  its  issue  of  Aug.  6,  ob- 
served :  "In  spite  of  the  inclement  weather  the  veterans 
of  the  Ninth  Connecticut  volunteeers  and  their  friends — 
the  latter  comprising  both  this  community  and  state — 
rallied  in  great  force  for  the  event  of  yesterday,  so  long 
and  eagerly  looked  forward  to.  It  goes  without  saying 
that  it  would  require  a  greater  obstacle  than  a  chilling 
easterly  storm  to  daunt  the  survivors  of  the  gallant  regi- 
ment which,  four  decades  ago,  faced  so  stoutly  the  storms 
of  battle  incident  to  a  bitter  and  protracted  civil  war.  The 
powers  of  the  air  did  their  utmost,  but  found  it  impossible 
to  quench  the  enthusiasm  of  participants  and  spectators 
at  the  exercises  of  yesterday. 

"Of  the  program  carried  out  at  the  Second  regiment 
armory  it  may  be  said  that  it  was  in  all  its  features  most 
acceptable  to  the  mighty  audience  assembled  there.  In 
the  course  of  his  address  accepting  the  monument  on  be- 
half of  the  city,  Mayor  Studley  voiced  fittingly  the  com- 
mon sentiment  of  respect  and  admiration  as  regards  the 
Ninth.  Governor  Chamberlain's  remarks  in  honor  of 
the  famous  regiment  struck  a  popular  chord  and  were 
received  with  great  favor.  In  this  impassioned  address, 
the  Rev.  Father  Slocum  of  Waterbury  told  some  whole- 


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some  truths  and  indulged  in  glowing  but  merited  eulogy 
of  the  endurance  and  valor  of  the  Ninth  in  the  early  6o's. 

"It  was  a  grievous  pity  that,  after  months  of  painstaking 
preparation  for  this  monument  unveiling,  Jupiter  Pluvius 
should  have  risen  in  his  might  at  the  last  moment  and 
striven  to  nullify  the  consummation  by  a  deluge.  Every- 
body in  New  Haven — in  Connecticut,  too,  it  is  safe  to 
say,  regretted  that  the  sun  could  not  have  shone  on 
the  sacred  observance  of  yesterday.  That  would  have 
been  vastly  pleasanter  for  all  concerned,  but  we  must  re- 
call the  adage  concerning  spilt  milk  and  be  philosophical 
concerning  the  vagaries  of  the  weather.  At  least,  the 
monument  is  unveiled,  and  long  may  it  stand  to  com- 
memorate the  worth  of  those  sons  of  Connecticut  who 
came  to  the  aid  of  the  nation  in  its  hour  of  need." 

"Trumbull"  in  his  article  in  the  New  York  Herald, 
Sunday,  Aug.  9,  speaking  of  the  Ninth's  monument  says : 
"It  was  commendable  in  the  officers  and  supporters  of 
the  regiment  to  make  the  day  a  memorable  one  in  the 
history  of  New  Haven.  While  there  have  been  oppor- 
tunities by  the  score  for  the  representatives  of  the  race 
to  impress  their  presence  upon  that  city,  there  has  never 
before  been  an  opportunity  to  awaken  the  public  to  the 
fact  that  at  the  time  of  the  nation's  greatest  need,  when 
the  Irish  had  not  been  received  into  the  sentimental 
brotherhood  of  man,  they  were  behind  none  in  their  read- 
iness to  make  sacrifices  for  the  country  and  in  honor  of 
their  State.  In  reality  there  have  been  but  few  who  have 
known  that  this  regiment  was  a  distinctively  Irish  regi- 
ment and  of  Connecticut  origin. 

"It  sprang  into  existence  in  response  to  the  keen  ap- 
preciation of  Governor  Buckingham  that  there  was  in 
the  Irish  residents  of  the  State  the  same  love  of  the  Union 
that  was  to  be  found  in  the  other  elements.  Had  it  not 
been  for  him  it  is  doubtful  if  the  career  would  have  been 
opened  to  it  which  to-day  justifies  its  pride  in  the  monu- 


4o6    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

ment  which  is  to  stand  as  long  as  granite  can  endure. 
With  this  knowledge  in  one's  possession,  the  significance 
of  the  eloquent  tribute  paid  Governor  Buckingham  by 
Father  Slocum,  the  orator  of  the  day,  becomes  under- 
stood. He  justly  called  him  the  first  citizen  of  his  day 
and  declared  that  Connecticut  would  fail  in  its  duty  until 
it  had  reared  a  public  monument,  in  a  conspicuous  place, 
to  his  memory.  *  *  * 

"As  I  have  already  said,  the  impression  which  this 
celebration  made  upon  the  people  of  Connecticut  would 
have  been  deeper  had  the  day  been  a  bright  one  and  the 
elaborate  programme  been  possible  of  performance.  It 
would  indeed  have  been  significant  of  the  Americanism  of 
the  Irish  that  under  their  direction  the  largest  military 
and  civic  demonstration  ever  seen  in  New  Haven  had 
been  concluded.  As  it  was,  the  regiment  was  enabled  to 
give  a  stirring  demonstration  of  the  loyalty  which  has 
always  been  theirs  and  which  at  last  has  come  to  be 
recognized  as  among  the  best  assets  of  the  State.  The 
handsome  monument  will,  of  course,  for  all  time  continue 
to  testify  to  the  service  of  the  Ninth  regiment.  *  *  * 

"In  view,  moreover,  of  the  rapid  disappearance  of  the 
veterans  of  the  war,  the  demand  becomes  urgent  that  the 
survivors  of  the  Connecticut  regiments  should  lead  in  an 
attempt  to  have  them  all  immortalized  in  the  towns  in 
which  they  were  organized.  It  is  not  a  work  for  the 
State  to  undertake,  for  that  means  of  carrying  on  the 
work,  while  it  simplifies  the  undertaking,  does  not  give 
the  memorials  the  significance  which  comes  from  private 
subscriptions.  The  further  we  go  from  the  scene  of  that 
great  conflict,  which  cost  so  much  life  and  destroyed  so 
much  treasure  that  the  Union  might  be  preserved,  the 
heavier  is  the  obligation  to  preserve  its  lesson  for  the  ben- 
efit of  those  who  have  a  different  kind  of  battle  to  fight,  in 
order  that  the  institutions  then  saved  may  be  perpetu- 
ated." 


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THE  SOLDIERS'  MONUMENT. 

BY  D.  B.  LOCKWOOD. 

How  many  hearts  will  leap  with  swelling  pride, 

How  many  eyes  will  fill  with  burning  tears, 

To  see,  at  last,  above  the  swelling  tide, 

The  monument,  foretold  these  many  years; 

Foretold  with  hope  deferred,  and  anxious  fears, 

Till  comrades  living,,  feared  that  comrades  dead 

Might  be  forgot ;  and  all  that  so  endears 

Their  mem'ry  to  the  land  for  which  they  bled, 

Would  fade  away  from  earth  with  time's  unceasing  tread. 

Proud  emblem  of  the  men  who  bravely  fell 

Who  only  counted  dear  the  nation's  life, 

Who  blanched  not  at  the  sound  of  shot  or  shell, 

Rememb'ring  duty,  country,  home  and  wife, 

Each  volunteer  a  hero  in  the  strife. 

Ready  to  fight,  as  only  fight  the  brave 

Or  meet  in  midnight  the  assassin's  knife, 

In  prison-pen  to>  die,  their  land  to  save, 

A  land  as  fair  as  free,  that  owns  no  more  a  slave. 

Reminder  of  the  days  of  bloody  strife, 

Of  fierce  contending  hosts  in  stern  array, 

Battling  for  dear  bought  liberty  and  life, 

And  all  that  makes  us  glorious  to-day; 

A  Union !  from  Alaska's  ice-bound  shore 

To  Ponce  de  Leon's  fragrant  land  of  flowers ! 

Long  may  it  stand,  defying  Time's  decay! 

Long  may  its  soldier-sailor  mantled  towers 

Keep  watch  and  ward  above  this  goodly  land  of  ours. 


4o8    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Hither  shall  come  in  each  succeeding  year 

Bringing  the  fairest,  freshest  flowers  of  May, 

The  comrades  left  behind ;  who'll  drop  a  tear 

For  consecrated  dust  that's  far  away, 

And  keep  with  pride  our  "Decoration  Day." 

And  when  in  God's  good  time  our  lives  are  spent, 

Our  children  here  shall  come  in  proud  array 

With  spring-time  flowers,  on  filial  duty  bent, 

To  deck,  with  grateful  hearts,  the  Soldiers'  Monument. 

A  hundred  years  of  earnest  labor  done, 

Of  arts  improved,  of  progress  near  and  far; 

In  civil  strife  a  thousand  battles  won ; 

In  peace  more  conquests  than  in  bloody  war! 

O,  who  shall  draw  the  horoscope  afar 

Of  cent'ries  hence,  when  nations  ne'er  shall  know 

The  lust  of  cruel  strife,  but  when  the  star 

Of  Peace  o'er  all  the  world  shall  brightly  glow 

And  man  shall  conquer  self,  his  greatest  earthly  foe. 


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SOME  INTERESTING  NOTES. 


first  reunion  of  the  surviving  veterans  of  the 
Ninth  took  place  at  the  Tontine  Hotel,  New  Haven, 
Dec.  2,  1869.    It  was  a  most  enjoyable  event. 

The  great  old  Irish  clan  names  were  well  represented 
in  the  regiment.  The  O's  and  Macs  abounded,  while 
hundreds  of  other  historic  Irish  names  likewise  appeared. 

Representatives  of  three  generations  of  one  family  — 
the  Careys  of  Hartford  —  enlisted  in  Company  K.  They 
were  father,  son  and  grandson.  The  latter,  however, 
was  not  mustered. 

It  was  by  no  means  uncommon  to  hear  conversations 
in  the  Irish  language  carried  on  by  members  of  the  regi- 
ment. Many  of  the  officers  and  men  were  proficient  in 
the  grand  old  tongue. 

As  stated  elsewhere,  Lieut.  Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gibbon 
had  two  brothers  in  the  Ninth,  Thomas  and  John.  A 
fourth  brother,  Maurice,  while  not  borne  on  the  muster 
roll,  was  a  sutler  of  the  regiment. 

In  Company  H  were  two  brothers,  —  Oliver  and 
Stephen  Sanford.  The  latter  died  Aug.  18,  1862.  Oli- 
ver died  June  28,  1864.  Both  were  favorites  in  the  com- 
pany and  were  good  soldiers  and  comrades. 

George  and  James  Hillyer,  of  Company  I,  were 
brothers.  They  both  enlisted  Aug.  15,  1861,  and  were 
mustered  Oct.  i,  that  year.  George  died  June  3,  1862, 
and  James  a  month  later.  Both  were  deeply  regretted  by 
their  comrades. 


410    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

During  the  Rebellion  a  publication  was  issued  at  regu- 
lar intervals  called  The  Connecticut  War  Record.  Copies 
may  be  consulted  at  the  State  Library,  in  Hartford.  The 
publication  contains  a  number  of  letters,  signed  "F.  F.," 
in  which  the  Ninth  is  mentioned.  The  initials  are  be- 
lieved to  stand  for  Frederick  Frye,  the  major  of  the  regi- 
ment. 

Early  in  1862,  Lieut.  William  O'Keefe,  of  the  Ninth, 
who  was  then  a  sergeant,  while  on  picket  guard  at  Ship 
Island,  Miss.,  captured  a  Confederate  spy  and  was  spe- 
cially thanked  for  the  exploit  by  Gen.  Phelps.  The  spy 
pretended  he  could  talk  only  Spanish,  but  when  he  found 
that  Gen.  Phelps  was  acquainted  with  that  language,  he 
abandoned  all  further  dissembling. 

The  resolution  for  the  return  of  the  captured  battle- 
flag  of  the  Third  Mississippi  was  introduced,  in  the 
Connecticut  House  of  Representatives,  by  the  Hon. 
James  P.  Pigott  of  New  Haven.  He  was  at  that  time  a 
member  of  the  House,  ably  supported  the  measure  and 
had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  the  resolution  adopted. 
Mr.  Pigott  was  afterwards  a  member  of  Congress  from 
Connecticut. 

During  the  Civil  War,  there  was  a  project  to  organize 
in  Connecticut,  and  send  to  the  front,  a  second  Irish  regi- 
ment. A  rendezvous  was  established  at  Hartford  and 
the  work  of  enlistment  was  vigorously  begun.  Thomas 
McManus  of  Hartford,  Patrick  Maher  of  New  Haven, 
and  other  military  men  were  prominent  in  the  movement. 
Several  companies  were  started,  but  the  project  was 
finally  relinquished. 

Lieut.  William  Gleeson  of  the  Ninth  took  a  promi- 
nent part,  after  the  war,  in  the  Fenian  movement.  He 
organized  a  company  of  102  men  for  the  invasion  of 
Canada  and  was  highly  complimented  for  his  activity. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  4II 

Lieut.  Gleeson  has  also  been  prominent  in  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic.  He  was  commander  of  Henry  C. 
Merwin  Post,  of  New  Haven,  and  has  held  other  posi- 
tions of  prominence  in  the  organization. 

Thomas  H.  Sullivan,  proprietor  of  "The  Oneco"  hotel, 
New  Haven,  rendered  great  service  in  collecting  funds 
for  the  Ninth's  monument.  He  generously  worked  day 
and  night  in  aid  of  the  project  and  deserves  special  men- 
tion for  his  very  substantial  labors  in  that  respect.  He 
also  gladly  allowed  the  Ninth's  Veteran  Association  the 
exclusive  use  of  Parlor  A,  in  his  hotel,  as  headquarters, 
for  two  months,  and  absolutely  declined  to  receive  any 
remuneration  therefor. 

The  Croffut-Morris  history  makes  several  references 
to  the  loyalty  of  the  Irish  of  Connecticut  to  the  cause  of 
the  Union.  Speaking  of  Lieut.  Robert  Dempsey  of  the 
Seventh  Connecticut  regiment,  it  says:  "When  Lieut. 
Robert  Dempsey  (of  Winsted)  fell,  he  said  to  those  who 
would  have  removed  him,  'I  am  going  to  die  here.  Let 
me  die  on  my  side' ;  the  blood  at  the  same  time  gushing 
from  his  breast.  Lieut.  Dempsey  went  out  as  second 
lieutenant  on  the  original  formation  of  the  regiment.  He 
was  about  thirty  years  old,  an  Irish  Catholic,  and  a  true 
soldier." 

Asst.  Surg.  George  W.  Avery  of  the  Ninth  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Yale  Medical  school  in  July,  1861.  He 
was  commissioned  First  Assistant  Surgeon  of  the  Ninth 
and  accompanied  the  regiment  to  Ship  Island,  Miss.  He 
was  at  one  period  in  charge  of  the  hospital  on  the  island, 
later  going  to  New  Orleans.  On  Dec.  8,  1863,  he  was 
promoted  Surgeon  of  the  First  regiment,  New  Orleans 
Volunteers.  He  served  on  Gen.  Canby's  staff  after  the 
war,  and  in  1867,  succeeded  Gen.  Harry  Hayes  as  a  high 
sheriff  in  New  Orleans.  He  left  the  latter  city  late  in 
1871,  and  located  in  Hartford,  Ct. 


4i  2     NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTR  Y. 

Tn  General  Orders  relative  to  the  battle  of  Baton 
Rouge,  issued  by  Gen.  Butler,  subsequent  to  the  battle, 
after  stating  that  "The  men  of  the  Ninth  Connecticut, 
who  were  detailed  to  man  Nims'  battery,  deserve  special 
commendation,"  he  pays  a  tribute  to  "John  Donaghue, 
Fourth  Massachusetts  battery,  who  brought  off  from  the 
camp  of  the  Seventh  Vermont  regiment  their  colors  at 
the  time  of  their  retreat."  Butler  also  calls  attention  to 
the  fact  that  "First  Sergeant  John  Haley,  Company  E, 
Thirtieth  Massachusetts,  commanded  his  company 
bravely  and  well  in  the  absence  of  his  line  officers." 

The  following  receipt  from  M.  P.  Coen,  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Ninth  Regiment  Veteran  Association, 
is  self-explanatory :  "Received  from  Lieutenant  Com- 
mander William  Braunersreuther,  U.  S.  N.,  Comman- 
dant, Naval  Station,  New  London,  Conn.,  in  accordance 
with  instructions  from  the  Ordnance  Department,  dated 
April  29,  1903,  Four  (4)  12  pdr.  brass  howitzers  on  iron 
carriages  *  *  *  [for]  the  9th  Regiment,  C.  V., 
Veterans  Association,  for  use  in  ornamenting  the  monu- 
ment of  that  Association  to  be  erected  at  Bay  View  Park, 
New  Haven,  Conn. ;  five  (5)  trail  bars ;  four  (4)  elevating 
screws;  four  (4)  locks  and  strings." 

A  special  dispatch  from  Naugatuck,  Ct.,  to  the  New 
Haven  Union,  Aug.  9,  1903,  stated  that  "The  citizens 
of  Naugatuck  contributed  nearly  $700  toward  the  Ninth 
C.  V.  regiment  monument  fund,  and  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  it  was  pouring  rain  a  large  delegation  went 
to  New  Haven  to  represent  Naugatuck  at  the  dedication 
of  the  monument.  This  town  never  does  anything  by 
halves.  The  Y.  M.  C.  I.  boys  presented  quite  a  neat 
appearance  with  their  white  umbrellas  and  received  con- 
siderable applause  as  they  marched  up  Meadow  street 
from  the  New  Haven  depot.  Although  the  umbrellas 
were  more  for  display  than  anything  else,  they  came  in 
handy  in  the  rain." 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865. 

Gen.  Michael  Corcoran,  of  New  York,  delivered  an  ad- 
dress in  Hartford,  Ct,  Aug.  30,  1862.  He  reached  that 
city  at  i  p.  m.,  and  was  greeted  at  the  depot  by  a  great 
crowd.  The  depot  had  been  decorated  with  flags  and 
an  impromptu  stage  had  been  erected.  Among  those  on 
the  stage  were  Governor  Buckingham  and  Col.  Deming. 
Gen.  Corcoran  was  introduced  by  the  mayor,  and  made  a 
patriotic  speech.  He  thanked  the  assemblage  for  the 
welcome  extended,  and  expressed  regrets  that  his  engage- 
ments in  New  York  would  prevent  him  from  addressing 
them  that  night.  He  promised  to  visit  Hartford  again, 
soon,  if  his  military  duties  would  allow.  He  was  re- 
peatedly applauded. 

An  order  was  issued  by  the  War  Department,  March 
27,  1865,  providing  "That  at  the  hour  of  noon,  on  the 
I4th  day  of  April,  1865,  Brevet  Major-General  Anderson 
will  raise  and  plant  upon  the  ruins  of  Fort  Sumter,  in 
Charleston  Harbor,  the  same  United  States  flag  which 
floated  over  the  battlements  of  that  Fort  during  the  rebel 
assault,  and  which  was  lowered  and  saluted  by  him  and 
the  small  force  of  his  command  when  the  works  were 
evacuated  on  the  I4th  day  of  April,  1861."  The  cere- 
monies attendant  on  this  restoration  of  the  flag  were  very 
impressive.  By  invitation  of  Gen.  Cuvier  Grover,  com- 
manding at  Savannah,  Ga.,  Lieut.  Col.  Healy  and  the 
band  of  the  Ninth  participated  in  the  ceremonies. 

Lieut.  John  C.  Curtis,  of  the  Ninth,  received  a  Con- 
gress Medal  of  Honor  for  bravery  at  the  battle  of  Baton 
Rouge.  He  was  Sergeant  Major  of  the  regiment  at  the 
time  of  the  battle.  During  the  engagement,  while  the 
Ninth  was  in  reserve,  he  begged  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon, 
then  in  command  of  the  Ninth,  for  permission  to  go  into 
the  line  of  fire  with  the  Sixth  Michigan  regiment.  Lieut. 
Col.  Fitz  Gibbon  gave  his  consent.  Being  a  sergeant 
major,  Curtis  was  armed  with  a  non-commissioned  offi- 
cer's short  sword.  He  put  on  the  equipments  of  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ninth  who  was  disabled,  took  the  latter's  rifle 


4i4    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

and  hastened  to  the  Sixth  Michigan  which  was  closely 
engaged  with  the  enemy.  Curtis  captured  two  Confed- 
erates at  the  point  of  the  bayonet  and  brought  them  into 
the  lines  of  the  Ninth.  As  he  appeared,  driving  his  two 
prisoners  ahead  of  him,  Lieut.  Col.  Fitz  Gibbon  ex- 
claimed; "Great  Scott!  See  what  is  coming!"  and  the 
whole  regiment  cheered.  Curtis  was  then  but  seventeen 
years  of  age. 

The  Second  Company,  Governor's  Foot  Guard,  which 
paraded  as  escort  to  Gov.  Chamberlain,  on  the  occasion 
of  the  dedication,  Aug.  5,  1903,  of  the  monument  to  the 
Ninth  regiment,  dates  from  1774.  It  is  one  of  the  oldest 
military  bodies  in  the  country.  Its  first  meeting  for  or- 
ganization was  held  Dec.  28,  1774.  The  following  is  an 
extract  from  the  agreement  then  adopted :  "As  we,  the 
subscribers,  are  desirous  to  encourage  the  Military  Art 
in  the  town  of  New  Haven,  and  in  order  to  have  a  well- 
disciplined  Company  in  said  town,  have  agreed  with  Ed- 
ward Burke  to  teach  us  the  military  exercise,  for  the  con- 
sideration of  three  pounds  lawful  money  per  month,  till 
such  time  as  we  shall  think  ourselves  expert  therein. 
The  Company  attained  great  proficiency 
and  for  nearly  129  years  has  occupied  a  position  of  prom- 
inence among  the  select  military  organizations  of  the 
country.  It  was  honorably  represented  in  the  War  of 
the  Revolution,  the  War  of  1812,  the  War  with  Mexico, 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  and  the  War  with  Spain. 

The  soldier's  statue  on  the  Ninth's  monument  in  Bay 
View  park,  New  Haven,  was  posed  for  by  Michael  P. 
Coen  of  Naugatuck,  Ct,  a  veteran  of  the  regiment.  The 
New  Haven  Leader  states  that  "M.  P.  Coen,  who  was 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Ninth  Regiment  Monu- 
ment Committee,  was  the  man  unanimously  chosen  to 
pose  for  the  sculptor  who  carved  the  figure  which  was 
placed  on  the  monument.  Mr.  Coen  is  one  of  the  best 
known  members  of  the  regiment  and  has  always  taken  a 
deep  interest  in  it.  He  has  been  prominent  in  bringing 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1865.  415 

about  the  plans  and  the  idea  of  the  celebration  of  the  ded- 
ication of  the  monument.  It  was  only  after  earnest  so- 
licitation on  the  part  of  the  members  of  the  regiment 
that  Mr.  Coen  consented  to  allow  his  figure  to  represent 
the  ideal  soldier  and  to  be  used  as  a  model  for  the  figure 
to  be  put  on  the  monument.  Mr.  Coen  resides  in  Nauga- 
tuck,  having  extensive  business  enterprises  in  that  place. 
He  came  down  to  the  celebration  yesterday  and  brought 
with  him  one  of  the  largest  delegations  to  reach  this  city, 
despite  the  rain/' 

Writing  from  New  Orleans,  La.,  April  15,  1885,  to 
Comrade  M.  P.  Coen  of  Naugatuck,  Ct,  Capt.  William 
Wright  says :  "My  wife  and  self  visited  Proctorville, 
(La.),  last  Sunday  for  the  purpose  of  noting  any  changes 
that  had  taken  place,  in  the  last  twenty  years,  in  that 
never-to-be-forgotten  land  of  swamps  and  alligators. 
Well,  there  are  a  few  changes.  In  the  first  place,  the 
quarters  we  occupied  have  been  destroyed  by  fire,  the 
chimneys  alone  standing,  reminding  one  of  the  shadowy 
ghosts  of  sentinels  guarding  the  swamps.  The  bayou 
has  been  changed  in  its  course,  making  quite  a  straight 
canal.  I  still  found  the  inevitable  negro  sitting  on  the 
bank  of  the  bayou  fishing  for  his  daily  meal.  The  old 
fort  is  still  in  charge  of  the  identical  alligator  that  with- 
stood so  many  shots  from  our  rifles.  The  host  of  mos- 
quitoes that  greeted  us  on  our  arrival  seemed  to  remem- 
ber us  with  great  pleasure  for  they  instantly  commenced 
presenting  their  bills, — possibly  with  a  view  of  making  up 
for  lost  time.  They  seemed  to  think  that  Yankee  blood 
was  good  enough  yet." 

Among  the  veterans  of  the  Ninth  who  participated  in 
the  monument  dedicatory  exercises  in  New  Haven,  Aug. 
5,  1903,  was  William  Boyle,  a  resident  of  Fort  Wads- 
worth,  N.  Y.  During  his  visit  to  New  Haven,  to  partici- 
pate in  the  exercises,  he  stopped  with  friends  residing  on 
Kimberly  avenue.  Mr.  Boyle  previous  to  his  enlistment 


416    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

into  the  Ninth  regiment  had  served  in  the  Twenty-Eighth 
Connecticut,  being  with  the  latter  until  the  expiration  of 
his  term,  Aug.  28,  1863.  He  enlisted  in  the  Ninth,  Jan. 
19,  1864,  being  credited  to  Greenwich,  Ct.  On  Oct.  12, 
1864,  he  was  transferred  to  Co.  D,  of  the  Ninth  Battalion, 
C.  V.,  and  was  mustered  out,  Aug.  3,  1865.  After  the 
war,  he  enlisted  in  the  regular  army  and  served  in  the 
South  and  West.  A  recent  sketch  states  that  "he  was 
commended  by  letter  of  Capt.  Fields  for  uniform  gal- 
lantry and  conduct  in  the  Modoc  campaign,  and  while  on 
duty  recovering  the  bodies  of  Lieut.  Cranston  and  the 
men  who  fell  with  him  on  April  26,  1873.  He  was 
recommended  for  appointment  of  ordnance  sergeant  and 
other  positions  by  the  following  officers  under  whom  he 
had  served:  Major  Rodgers,  First  artillery;  Major 
Pratt,  Artillery  corps;  Captain  Fields,  First  artillery; 
Lieutenants  Story,  Greenough  and  Chamberlain.  He 
served  as  a  non-commissioned  officer  as  follows :  Cor- 
poral, Ninth  Connecticut  Volunteers ;  sergeant  and  first 
sergeant,  Battery  A,  Fourth  artillery ;  principal  musician, 
band,  Fourth  artillery ;  corporal,  Battery  H,  Fourth  ar- 
tillery; corporal,  sergeant  and  first  sergeant,  Battery  L, 
First  artillery." 

Just  before  the  present  volume  went  to  press,  the  fol- 
lowing letter  was  received  from  Capt.  O.  F.  Nims  who 
commanded  Nims'  battery,  during  the  war,  and  was  with 
the  Ninth  at  Baton  Rouge:  "42  Blossom  st.,  Boston, 
Mass.  Thos.  Hamilton  Murray,  Esq.,  Sea  View,  Mass., 
Dear  Sir :  Your  very  kind  communication  has  been  re- 
ceived by  me,  and  I  desire  to  thank  you  for  the  same. 
It  is  getting  to  be  a  long  span,  back  to  the  days  of  which 
you  speak ;  but  I  remember  well  the  part  the  Ninth  Con- 
necticut took  in  the  memorable  engagement  at  Baton 
Rouge,  when  in  the  early  morning,  under  the  cover  of  a 
thick  fog,  the  enemy  stole  in  on  us.  It  was  while  leading 
the  charge  that  Gen.  Williams  was  killed.  Other  gallant 
leaders  remained,  however,  and  the  dashing  Col.  Cahill 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-1863.  4I7 

assumed  command  of  the  brigade.  By  his  daring  and 
skilful  leadership  the  enemy  was  repulsed,  and  the  day 
was  won.  Great  credit  has  been  given  to  all  the  troops 
who  participated  that  day,  and  particularly  to  the  men  of 
the  Ninth  Connecticut.  Deploring  civil  strife  wherever 
it  be,  if  ours  had  to  be,  I  am  glad  that  I  was  able  to  take 
part  in  the  great  conflict  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Union.  Again  thanking  you  for  your  kindly  expressions 
of  sentiment,  I  am,  Yours  sincerely,  O.  F.  NIMS,  Captain, 
Second  Massachusetts  Battery." 

From  the  Hartford  Evening  Press,  Aug.  27,  1862: 
"THE  IRISH  REGIMENT— There  was  a  large  attendance 
at  the  meeting  of  Irish  citizens,  last  evening  [Hartford], 
at  which  Thomas  McManus,  Esq.,  presided.  Patriotic 
speeches  were  made  by  Messrs.  Thomas  McManus,  Car- 
roll, Freeman,  Stevenson,  Edward  McManus,  Tiernan 
and  others.  A  committee  was  appointed  to  encourage 
enlistments  and  another  to  invite  Gen.  Corcoran  to  ad- 
dress the  people  of  Hartford."  The  above  refers  to  the 
projected  second  Irish  regiment.  Another  reference  to 
the  latter  is  found  in  the  same  paper,  of  Oct.  3,  1862,  as 
follows:  "The  Irish  Battalion  completed  its  organiza- 
tion to-day  by  electing  Capt.  Patrick  Maher  of  New 
Haven,  captain  of  the  Emmet  Guard,  as  major.  The 
battalion  reports  over  300  men,  but  not  all  in  camp.  The 
two  Hartford  companies  consolidated,  and  elected  Cap- 
tain, George  A.  Denslow ;  First  Lieutenant,  Edward  J. 
Carroll ;  Second  Lieutenant,  James  L.  Haynes.  *  *  * 
The  company  from  Bridgeport,  and  the  other  New 
Haven  company,  consolidated  and  elected  Captain,  Pat- 
rick Gilmore;  First  Lieutenant,  Edward  N.  Goodwin; 
Second  Lieutenant,  Patrick  Mooney."  In  the  Hartford 
Evening  Press,  Oct.  4,  1862,  it  is  stated  that  "Thomas 
McManus,  late  Acting  Major  of  the  Irish  Battalion,  has 
been  appointed  Adjutant  of  the  Twenty-Fifth  Regiment. 
The  Irish  Battalion  has  been  consolidated  with  the 
Twenty-Fourth  Regiment  at  Middletown." 


4i8    NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 


PRESENT  SURVIVORS  OF  THE  NINTH. 

THE  following  is  a  list  of  surviving  veterans  of  the 
Ninth,  so  far  as  known,  corrected  to  Aug.  5,  1903, 
the  date  of  the  dedication  of  the  monument  at  Bay  View 
park,  New  Haven.     The  places  of  residence  given  are 
all  in  Connecticut  except  where  otherwise  stated: 

Allen,  Edward,  Redlands,  Cal. 

Andle,  Charles,,  Fair  Haven. 

Barry,  David,  Middletown. 

Bassett,  S.  T.,  Bridgeport. 

Becker,  Joseph  W.,  Bethel. 

Bennett,  Q.  M.  Nathan  I.,  Bethel. 

Boyle,  William,  Fort  Wadsworth,  N.  Y. 

Brennan,  Patrick,  New  Haven. 

Burlingame,  Seymour,  Myricks  Station,  Mass. 

Butler,  John,  Shelburne  Falls,  Mass. 

Caffrey,  Sergt.  James,  New  Haven. 

Cahill,  Lieut.  James,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Callahan,  Sergt.  Patrick,  Hartford. 

Carroll,  John,  Meriden. 

Clancy,  Lieut.   Richard,   Bridgeport. 

Coburn,  Andrew  C,  Noroton. 

Coen,  Michael  P.,  Naugatuck. 

Coffey,  Bernard,  New  Haven. 

Coleman,  J.  W.,  Noroton. 

Comisky,  Sergt.  Nicholas,  Noroton. 

Conners,  James,  Hartford. 

Conway,  Martin,  Fishkill,  N.  Y. 

Conway,  William,  Noroton. 

Cook,  George  F.,  Bridgeport. 

Cronan,  Sergt.  Michael,  Naugatuck. 

Curtis,  Lieut.  John  C.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Dadman,  George  W.,  New  Haven. 

Debow,  Sergt.  Michael,  New  Haven. 


WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION,  1861-2863. 

Devlin,  John,  Noroton. 

Diamond,  T.  F.,  Bridgeport. 

Dolan,  Sergt.  Thomas,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Dwyer,  John,  Galveston,  Texas. 

Fahey,  John,  Terryville. 

Flannagan,  Patrick,  New  Haven. 

Fitz  Gibbon,  Lieut.  Col.  Richard,  Bridgeport. 

Foley,  John,  West  Pike,  Pa. 

Fox,  Michael,  Buckland. 

Garvey,  Capt.  Patrick,  Meriden. 

Gleeson,  Lieut.  William,  New  Haven. 

Gordy,  Edward,  Wallingford. 

Graham,  Andrew  F.,  Stratford. 

Graham,  Lieut.  James  F.,  Maiden,  Mass. 

Grogan,  Michael,  New  Haven. 
Hackett,  Sergt.  Malachi,  Meriden. 
Hall,  Charles  E.,  Hamden. 
Harral,  Q.  M.  William  W.,  Bridgeport. 
Hausman,  Charles,  New  Haven. 
Hayden,  William,  Wallingford. 
Healy,  Col.  John  G.,  New  Haven. 
Healy,  John,  Ansonia. 
Healy,  Prin.  Mus.  John  E.,  New  Haven. 
Hendricks,  Fred,  Bridgeport. 
Hoey,  George,  New  Haven. 
Hoye,  Frank,  Waterbury. 
Hughes,  Patrick,  Hartford. 
Jacques,  William,  Portland. 
Kavanagh,  Thomas,  Columbus,  O. 
Kelleher,  Michael,  New  Haven. 
Kelley,  Dennis,  New  Haven. 
Kelly,  Bartholomew,  New  Haven. 
Kennedy,  Robert,  Noroton. 
Keyes,  Henry  F.,  New  Haven. 
Kline,  Fred,  Noroton. 
Knablin,  Sergt.  Thomas,  Bridgeport. 
Lawler,  John  H.,  Ansonia. 
28 


420 


NINTH  REGIMENT  CONN.  VOL.  INFANTRY. 

Leahy,  Sergt.  Daniel,  Noroton. 
Lines,  Dr.  J.  F.,  New  Haven. 
Logan,  Terence,  Laramie,  Wyo. 
Lucey,  Dennis,  New  Haven. 
Mason,  William,  Newark,  N.  J. 
McCarten,  Bartholomew,  New  Haven. 
McCarten,  Capt.  Michael,  New  Haven. 
McDonald,  Terence,  New  Haven. 
McGuane,  William,  Winsted. 
McGuire,  James,  New  Haven. 
McManus,  John,  Noroton. 
McNeil,  Dr.  Rollin,  New  Haven. 
Menold,  Henry,  Union  City. 
Mills,  Moses,  Bridgeport. 
Morrisey,  James,  New  Haven. 
Murley,  Thomas.  New  Haven. 
O'Brien,  Capt.  Lawrence,  New  Haven. 
O'Keefe,  Lieut.  William,  New  Haven. 
O'Sullivan,  Lieut.  Daniel,  Noroton. 
Pfaunekuchen,  Frederick,  Yalesville. 
Reilly,  John,  New  Haven. 
Reilly,  Sergt.  Philip,  New  Haven. 
Rutherford,  George,  Bridgeport. 
Ryan,  Thomas,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Scott,  Capt.  Garry  T.,  Nebraska. 
Shaw,  James,  New  Haven. 
Smith,  Augustus,  Bristol. 
Streit,  Simon,  New  Haven. 
Tiernan,  John,  New  Haven. 
Ward,  John,  Bridgeport. 
Warner,  Alonzo,  North  Glastonbury. 
Wellington,  Frank,  Bridgeport. 
Weil,  Patrick,  Noroton. 
Whalen,  James,  New  Haven. 
White,  Thomas  C,  Waterbury. 
York,  William,  Middlebury. 


INDEX  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


(The  pictures  front  the  pages  given.) 


A  Reunion  of  Veterans  of 

the  Ninth, 208 

Battle  at    Opequan  Creek 

(Winchester),  .  .  .195 
Bennett,  Q.  M.  Nathan  I.,  142 
Bolger,  Lieut.  John,  .  .  200 
Cahill,  Col  Thomas  W.,  .  25 
Capt.  David  C.  Warner,  .  200 
Capt.  Elliot  M.  Curtis,  .  79 
Capt.  Garry  T.  Scott,  .  .  200 
Capt.  James  P.  Hennessey,  224 
Capt.  James  W.  Graham,  200 
Capt.  John  Duffy,  ...  72 
Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien,  .  no 
Capt.  Michael  McCarten,  .  91 
Capt.  Patrick  Garvey,  .  .91 
Capt.  T.  C.  Coates,  ...  91 
Capt.  Terence  Sheridan,  .  65 
Capt.  William  A.  Lee,  .  .  200 
Capt.  William  Wright,  .  .  91 
Capture  of  a  Sloop  on  Lake 

Ponchartrain,  .  .  .131 
Chaplain  Daniel  Mullen,  .  72 
Chaplain  Leo  Rizzo,  .  .  72 
Coates,  Capt.  T.  C.,  .  .  91 
Coen,  Corp.  John  P.,  .  .162 
Coen,  Corp.  Michael  P.,  .  238 
Col.  Thomas  W.  Cahill,  .  25 
Connecticut,  Seal  of,  .  .  3 
Corp.  John  P.  Coen,  .  .162 
Corp.  Michael  P.  Coen,  .  238 


Curtis,  Capt.  Elliot  M.,  .79 
Curtis,  Lieut.  John  C.,  .  .  72 
Duffy,  Capt.  John,  ...  72 
Farragut  passing  forts  Jack- 
son and  St.  Philip,  .  .  95 
Fitz  Gibbon,  Lieut.  Col. 

Richard, 33 

Flag  of  the  Third  Missis- 
sippi,     ....     220,  224 
Flags  of  the  Ninth, 

Frontispiece 
Forts  Jackson  and  St.  Philip, 

Farragut  passing,  .  .  95 
Frontispiece,  Illuminated,  i 
Frye,  Major  Frederick,  .  47 
Garvey,  Capt.  Patrick,  .  .  91 
Gleeson,  Lieut.  William,  .  200 
Graham,  Capt.  James  W.,  200 
Healy,  Lieut.  Col.  John  G., 

197,  200 

Healy,  Prin.  Mus.  John  E.,  183 
Hennessey,  Capt.  James  P.,  224 
Illuminated  frontispiece,  .  i 
Lawler,  Lieut.  Joseph  H.,  200 
Lee,  Capt.  William  A.,  .  200 
Lieut.  Col.  John  G.  Healy, 

197,  200 
Lieut.   Col.    Richard    Fitz 

Gibbon, 33 

Lieut.  Christian  Streit,  .  142 
Lieut.  Francis  McKeon,  .  65 


422 


INDEX  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


PACK 

Lieut.  John  Bolger,  .  .  .  200 
Lieut.  John  C.  Curtis,  .  .  72 
Lieut.  John  McCusker,  .  142 
Lieut.  John  Shaw,  .  .  .  142 
Lieut.  Joseph  H.  Lawler,  200 
Lieut.  Michael  Mullins,  .  65 
Lieut.  William  Gleeson,  .  200 
Lieut.  William  O'Keefe,  .  142 
Major  Frederick  Frye,  .  .  47 
McCarten,  Capt.  Michael,  .  91 
McCusker,  Lieut.  John,  .  142 
McKeon,  Lieut.  Francis,  .  65 
McNeil,  Surg.  Rollin,  .  .  200 
Monument  to  the  Ninth,  .  356 
Mullen,  Chaplain  Daniel,  .  72 
Mullen,  Sergt.  J.  T.,  .  .183 
Mullins,  Lieut.  Michael,  .  65 
Ninth,  The,  Monument  to,  356 
Ninth  Veterans,  Reunion 

of 208 

O'Brien,  Capt.  Lawrence      no 


O'Keefe,  Lieut.  William,  .  142 
Opequan  Creek,  Battle  at,  195 
Prin.  Mus.  John  E.  Healy,  183 
Q.  M.  Nathan  I.  Bennett,  .  142 
Reilly,  Sergt.  Philip,  .  .183 
Reunion  of  Veterans,  A,  of 

the  Ninth, 208 

Rizzo,  Chaplain  Leo,  .  .  72 
Scott,  Capt.  Garry  T.,  .  .  200 
Seal  of  Connecticut,  ...  3 
Sergt.  J.  T.  Mullen,  .  .  .183 
Sergt.  Philip  Reilly,  .  .183 
Shaw,  Lieut.  John,  .  .  .  142 
Sheridan,  Capt.  Terence,  .  65 
Sheridan,  Gen.,  passing 
along  the  lines  on  his 
ride  from  Winchester,  202 
Streit,  Lieut.  Christian,  .  142 
Surg.  Rollin  McNeil,  .  .  200 
Warner,  Capt.  David  C. ,  .200 
Wright,  Capt.  William,  .  .91 


A  GENERAL  INDEX. 


' '  A  brave  and  efficient  officer, 
and  fertile  in  expedients," 
(Tribute  to  Capt.  Lawrence 
O'Brien), 347 

' '  About  3000  wounded  left  in  Win- 
chester,"  Va. ,  190 

A  call  made  on  the  Ninth  for  men 
for  a  U.  S.  yacht  and  the  gun- 
boat Bar  it  aria, 165 

A  capture  by  Sergt.  Philip  Reilly 
while  in  command  of  a  de- 
tachment,   163 

A  captured  English  steamer 
brought  to  Ship  Island  by  a 
prize  crew 68 

"  A  chance  for  volunteers, "      .     .     33 

"  A  chasm  that  once  threatened 
to  divide  this  great  American 
republic," 228 

A  check  for  $50  presented  Capt. 

McCarten's  company,    ...     37 

A  Christmas  dinner  on  Ship  Is- 
land, Miss., 66 

A  company  of  the  Ninth,  with 
bayonets  fixed  and  guns 
loaded,  overpowers  rebellious 
negro  cavalry,  .  .  .  .  166,  167 

Across  Lake  Maurepas,  Expedi- 
tion,   164,  165 

Acting  Adjutant  of  the  Ninth, 
Lieut.  John  C.  Curtis  is  ap- 
pointed,   153 

Acting    Brigadier   General,   Col. 
Thomas  W.  Cahill, 
115, 128, 129,  133, 134, 142,  323,  330 

Acting  British  consul  at  New  Or- 
leans, Brazen  effrontery  of 
the, 98 


Acting  second  lieutenants  ap- 
pointed in  the  Ninth,  .  .  .153 

Address  by  Capt.  Lawrence 
O'Brien, 399 

Address  by  Congressman  Sperry 
of  Connecticut, 398 

Address  by  Gen.  James  R. 

O'Beirne 398,  399 

Address  by  Hon.  C.  T.  Driscoll,     399 

Address  by  Hon.  Thomas  J.  Gar- 
gan, 398 

Address  by  Hon.  William  Me  Adoo,  397 

Address,  Extract  from  the,  of 
Rev.  Father  Hart  of  New 
Haven  to  the  Ninth,  .  .  181,  182 

Addresses  at  the  dinner  of  the 
American-Irish  Historical  So- 
ciety,   397,  398,  399 

Addresses  by  Col.  John  G. 

Healy, 398,  399 

Addresses  by  Gov.  Chamberlain, 

384,  397 

Addresses  by  Mayor  Studley  of 
New  Haven,  385,  386,  397,  398,  404 

"  A  destiny  for  History  and  Song 
to  remember  forever,"  .  .  .  236 

A  detail  from  Co.  B  of  the  Ninth 
ordered  to  duty  at  the  U.  S. 
Mint  in  New  Orleans,  .  .  .156 

A  detail  from  the  Ninth  goes 
aboard  the  U.S.  gunboat  New 
London, 162 

Adjutant-General  Haven  of  Con- 
necticut,   339 

Adjutant-General  Hodge  of  Con- 
necticut refuses  to  promulgate 
Gov.  Minor's  order  to  disband 
the  Irish  companies,  .  .  .  18 


424 


A    GENERAL   INDEX. 


Adjutant-General  of  Connecticut 

compliments  the  Ninth,  .  .  4 

Adjutant  Hall  of  the  Ninth  is  ap- 
pointed aide-de-camp  and  act- 
ing assistant  adjutant  general 
on  the  Brigade  staff ,  .  .  .  71,72 

Adjutant  Kattenstroth  of  the 
Ninth  specially  mentioned  by 
Lieut. -Col.  Richard  Fitz  Gib- 
bon at  Baton  Rouge,  .  .  .121 

Admiral  Foote  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of 
New  Haven, 338,  344 

"Adopted  citizens,"  Resolution 
in  favor  of  a  regiment  of,  .  .32 

"A  false  alarm  that  night,"     .     .  138 

Affair  at  Blackburn's  Ford,  The,  332 

"A  fine  company  of  Irishmen 
from  Norwich,"  .  .  .  .  28,  29 

"A  flag  of  truce  came  in  from  the 
enemy," 137 

A  force  of  picked  men  under 
Capt.  John  G.  Healy  and 
Lieut.  Patrick  T.  Claffee,  .  no 

"Against  England  or  any  for- 
eign power  that  may  wage 
war  against  us,"  Oath  taken 
by  Union  troops, 97 

"  A  grateful  people  will  long  re- 
member its  Irish  heroes  who 
wore  the  blue," 26 

A  great  illumination  caused  by 
the  burning  of  structures  on 
Dougherty's  plantation,  .  .126 

A  guard  from  the  Ninth  sent 
North  with  prisoners,  .  .  .  163 

A  harp  of  gold, 45 

A  high  tribute  to  the  Ninth  from 
Gen.  Butler, 161 

"  Aid  our  fathers  received  from 
true  hearts  of  other  lands,"  .  44 

Alabama  coast,  The  Ninth  gets  a 

glimpse  of  the, 58 

Alabama,  The,  "essentially  a 
British  pirate  ship,"  .  100,  101 


Albee,   Col.  George  E.,  of  New 

Haven, 396 

Alien  enemies,  Law  defying  and 

treacherous, 98 

"  All  ready  to  run  past  the  forts,"    94 

Ambassador,  Letter  from  the 
French, 365 

Ambassador,  Letter  from  the 
German,  364,  365 

A  medical  Dogberry  at  New  Or- 
leans,   109 

A  member  of  the  Ninth  accident- 
ally killed  at  Ship  Island,  .  90 

American    invasion    of    Canada, 

Gen.  Butler  on  a  possible,      .  100 

American-Irish  Historical  Society, 
Field  day  at  New  Haven  of  the, 
360,  361,  362,  363,  364,  365,  378, 
392,  393,  394,  395,  396,  397,  398, 
399,  400,  401,  402,  403 

American  Revolution,  The, 

44,  364,  398,  414 

American  statesmen  warned 
against  England,  ....  99 

American  vessels  destroyed  by 
the  Alabama,  101 

' '  A  mortality  not  equalled  by  any 
other  of  our  regiments  within 
a  smilar  period  "  (said  in  ref- 
erence to  the  Ninth's  losses  at 
Vicksburg), 109 

Amusing  incident  told  by  Gen. 

Butler, 87 

An  affecting  incident  at  Pass 
Christian,  Miss., 85 

"An  almost  continuous  blaze  of 

light," 94 

Anchored  two  miles  off  shore, 
Transport  fleet  with  the  Ninth 
aboard, 90 

Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  367,  376 

Anderson ville,  Ga.,   Men  of  the 

Ninth  die  at, 207 

"  An  emblem  of  the  peace  that  is, 
as  of  the  war  that  was,"  .  .  225 


A   GENERAL  INDEX. 


425 


"  An  emblem  of  the  warlike  days 
of  your  ancestors,"  ....  46 

An  encounter  with  rebel  pickets,    165 

An  English  braggart  at  New  Or- 
leans brought  to  task  by  Gen 
Butler, 98,  99 

An  English  ship  driven  ashore  by 
our  gunboats,  while  endeav- 
oring to  run  the  blockade,  .  61 

"  Animosity  toward  our  country 
remains  in  the  heart  of  Eng- 
land,"   99 

' '  An  infamy  as  merited  as  it  is 
fathomless," 20 

An  interesting  order  issued  by 
Gen.  J.  J.  Reynolds  to  Capt. 
Lawrence  O'Brien,  .  .  177,  178 

An  interrupted  dinner,    .     .     .     .126 

An  introductory  chapter,     .     .     .     10 

Annapolis  military  district,      .     .173 

An  order  countermanded,    ...     72 

An  order  providing  a  funeral  es- 
cort for  Private  Thomas 
O'Brien,  of  Co.  D,  ....  144 

An  order  regarding  the  Ninth  is 
rescinded, 154 

An  order  to  Private  Charles  Mon- 
tague of  Co.  E.,  154 

Antrim,  Ireland, 344 

"  Answering  flames  of  fire  from 
the  sides  of  our  fleet,"  ...  94 

A  pathetic  news  paragraph,     .     .  238 

Appointments  made  by  Col.  Cahill, 

85,  86 

Appointment  to  the  staff  of  Gen. 
Reynolds,  Lieut.  Col.  Richard 
Fitz  Gibbon  receives  an,  330,  331 

4 '  A  regiment  composed  of  Irish 
adopted  citizens  would  be  re- 
ceived," (Gov.  Buckingham  to 
Capt.  T.  W.  Cahill,  April, 
1861, 31 

Army  and  Navy  Club  of  Connec- 
ticut,   338 

Army  of  the  James, 184 


Army  of  Northern  Virginia, 

216,  217,  218,  221,  223 

Army  of  the  Potomac, 

177,  178,  183,  184,  187 

Army  of  the  Valley, 200 

Arnold,  Col.  John,  desires  to  have 
the  Washington-Erina  Guards 
of  New  Haven  become  part 
of  his  regiment, 12 

Arrival  at  Ship  Island  of  Gen.  B. 
F.  Butler, 72 

Arrival  of  the  Ninth  at  Camp 
Chase,  Lowell,  Mass.,  .  49,  50,  51 

Arrival  of  the  Ninth  at  the  South 
West  Pass, 91 

Artillery  salute  at  Ship  Island  to 
Gen.  Butler, 72 

A  soldier's  burial  at  Chalmette, 
Corporal  John  P.  Coen  is 
given, 162 

A  special  train  conveys  the  Ninth 
from  New  Haven  to  Lowell, 
Mass., 48 

A  spray  of  shamrock,      ....     45 

Assassination  in  New  Orleans  of 
Private  Mark  O'Neil,  of  Co.  D,  97 

Ass't  Surg.  Ira  C.  Winsor,  newly 
appointed,  is  ordered  by  Lieut. 
Col.  Fitz  Gibbon,  to  report  to 
Surgeon  Gallagher 158 

A  symbol  of  peace  and  good  will,  225 

At  Corinth  bridge,      .     .     .     114,  115 

A  Union  defeat  turned  into  a 
Union  victory  at  the  battle 
of  Cedar  Creek, 199 

"  At  intervals  we  passed  a  house 
upon  which  the  white  flag 
appeared," 96 

Attempt  to  isolate  Vicksburg, 
Miss.,  .  .  108,  109,  no,  in,  112 

"  At  the  tent  on  the  green,"    .     .     33 

Authorized  to  administer  oaths  of 
office,  Capt.  Lawrence  O'Brien 
is, 155 


426 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


A  "wild  son  of  Mississippi,"    .     .     74 
Avery,   Ass't  Surg.  George  W., 
Sketch  of, 321,  411 

Ballymena,  Ireland, 344 

Band  of  the  Ninth,  .    37,  244,  245,  353 
Banks,  Gen.  N.  P.  .Sketch  of,  173; 

orders  issued  by,        .     .     .     .154 
Barnes,  Lieut.  Amos  P.,      .     367,  369 
Baron  Speck  Von  Sternburg,    364,  365 
"  Baton  Rouge  and  Vicksburg  cam- 
paigns,"   331 

Baton  Rouge,  Battle  of, 

115,  116,  117,  118,  119,  120,  121, 
122,  123,  358,  362,  412,  413,  414, 
416,  417 
Battalion    of    Engineers,    Lieut. 

Daniel  O'Sullivan  joins  a,      .  348 
Battalion  of  negro  cavalry    dis- 
armed,       166,  167 

Battalion,  Roster  of  the  Ninth, 

301-320 
Battalion,  The  Ninth,  organized, 

194,  195 

"  Battle  Flag  day,"      .      211,  212,  350 
Battle  of  Baton  Rouge, 

115,  116,  117,  118,  119,  120,  121, 

122,  123,  358,  362,  412,  413,  414, 
416,  417; 

report  of  Col.  Cahill  on  the, 

115,  116,  117,  118,  119 
report     of     Lieut.     Col.    Fitz 

Gibbon,  ....  119,  120,  121 
Battle  of  Bull  Run,  .  .  327,  329,  330 
Battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  ....  333 
Battle  of  Cedar  Creek,  Va. , 

2,  6,  194,  196,  197,  198,  199,  200, 
201,  205,  206,  207,  327,  350,  358 
Battle  of  Fisher's  Hill,  Va., 

6,  193  194,  197,  205,  206,  332, 
358,  362 
Battle  of  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga.,    237 

Battle  of  Pueblo 324 

Battle  of  Winchester,  Va., 

188,  190,  191,  332,  362 


Battle    standards    at    the    State 

Capitol,  Hartford,  ....  45 
Bayou  des  Allemands, 

6,  133,  134,  172,  173 

Bayou  Gros, 120,  126 

Bayou  La  Fourche, 163 

Bayou  Pierre,  and  Grand  Gulf,  .  in 
Bayou  Sara,  .  .  .  115,116,119,120 
Bayou  St.  John,  ....  157,  164 

Bay  St.  Louis, 206,  207 

Beauregard,    Gen.,    The    British 
Guard  of  New  Orleans  votes 
to   send  its    arms,   accoutre- 
ments and  uniforms  to,      .     .     98 
Beauregard,  Mrs.,  Requiem  Mass 

for, 164 

Beecher,    Edward    C.,    of    New 

Haven, 393 

Bennett,  Q.  M.  Nathan  I.,  Sketch 

of 321,  322 

Bermuda    Hundred,   The    Ninth 
leaves  New  Haven,  in  July, 

1864,  for, 183 

Bernard's  plantation,  La.,  .  .  .119 
"  Big  Bill  Allen  "  of  the  Ninth,  .  51 
"  Big  Dennis  and  his  educated 

Pig," 7i 

Biloxi  incident,  The,  73,  74,  75,  79,  81 
Biloxi,  Miss.,  The  Ninth  lands 

at, 79,  8 1 

Biographical  sketches,  .  .  .  321-354 
Birge,  Gen.,  compliments  the 

Ninth  Battalion, 200 

sketch  of  the  General,  .  .  .  .177 
Blackburn's  Ford,  The  affair  at,  .  332 
"  Black  flag."  Breckinridge 

threatens  to  attack  with  the,  127 
Blockade  runner,  Sergt.  Reilly 

participates    in    the    capture 

of  a 164 

Blockaded  in  the  French  port  of 

Cherbourg,  The  Alabama  is,  101 
Blockading  fleet  off  Charleston, 

S.  C 202 

Blue  Ridge,  Passes  of  the,  .  .  .  194 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


427 


Board  of  education,  New  Haven,    323 
Board  to  examine  recruits  for  the 

Ninth, 176 

Bolger,  Lieut.  John,  Sketch  of,  .     322 
Bombardment  of  Forts   Jackson 

and  St.  Philip, 93 

Bonita    Station,  La.,  Expedition 

to, 163 

Boutte  Station,  La.,    133,  134,  135,  136 
Boynton's  History  of  the  Navy 
During  the  Rebellion,     .     .     99 

Brashear  City, 135 

"  Brave  men  respect  the  brave,"  .  225 
Brazen   effrontery  of  the  acting 
British    consul    at   New    Or- 
leans,   98 

Breckinridge,  Gen.  John  C. ,  com- 
mands the  Confederate  attack 
on  the  Union  forces  at  Baton 

Rouge, 114,  115 

Bree,  Hon.  James  P.,     8,  357,  362,  395 
Brigade  chief  trumpeter,  James 

Hennessey, 342 

Brigades,  The,  of  Gen.  Phelps  and 
Gen.  Williams  leave  Ship  Is- 
land,   90 

British  flag,  The  Alabama  sails 

from  England  under  a,      .     .  101 
British  Guard,  The,  a  Confederate 

organization  in  New  Orleans,     98 
prompt  action    taken   against, 

by  Gen.  Butler, 98 

Broderick,  Rev.  T.  W.,  of  Hart- 
ford, at  the  obsequies  of  Chap- 
lain Leo  Rizzo, 350 

Buckingham,  Gov.,  writes  to  Col. 

Cahill  in  praise  of  the  Ninth,        4 
Bunker  Hill,  Battle  of,    .     .     .     .333 
Burke,  Edward,  engaged  in  1774 
by  the  Second  Company  Gov- 
ernor's Foot  Guard  to  teach 
the    latter    "  military    exer- 
cise,"   414 

Burke,  Private  Martin,  of  Co.  B, 
injured  at  Ship  Island,  .  .  90 


Burning  of  structures  on  Dough- 
erty's plantation,  .  .  .  .126 

Butler,  Benjamin  F.,  of  Lowell, 
Mass. ,  objects  to  disbandment 
of  Irish  military  companies, 

15,    16 

Butler's  New  England  Division,       43 

Butler's  staff  at  Ship  Island, 
Miss., 72,  73 

Byington,  Mr.,  introduces  a  re- 
solve, in  the  Connecticut  sen- 
ate, in  favor  of  a  regiment  of 
"  adopted  citizens,"  ....  32 

By  way  of  preface, 7 

Cahill,  Col.  Thomas  W.,  Sketch  of, 

322,  323 

Cahill,  Dr.  Thomas  M.,     .  8,  357,  395 
Cahill,  Lieut.  James,  Sketch  of,  .  323 

Camp  Chalmette, 168 

Camp  Chase,  Lowell,  Mass., 

8,  43,  47,  49,  50,  51,  52,  53 

Camp  English, 37 

Camp  Kearney, 202 

Camp  Lyon, 37 

Camp  of  the  Ninth  has  a  little 

humor  now  and  then,  ...  71 
Camp  Moore,  .  .  .  .  no,  114,  115 
Camp  Parapet, 

103,  104,  105,  106,  no,  343 

Camp  Russell, 202 

Camp  Sheridan 202 

Camp  Suggville, 80 

Camp  Welch,  the  Ninth's  rendez- 
vous, .  36,  37,  40,  43,  45,  46,  47,  50 
Canada,  Gen.  Butler  on  a  possi- 
ble American  invasion  of ,.     .  100 
Canal,  The  "cut-off,"  near  Vicks- 

burg,  Miss.,  108,  109,  no,  in,  112 
Captain  of  the  British  Guard  at 
New  Orleans  seized  and  im- 
prisoned by  Gen.  Butler,  .     .     98 
Capt.  E.  M.  Curtis,  of  the  Ninth, 
provost  marshal  at  Madison, 
La-> 327 


428 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


Capt.  E.  M.  Curtis,  of  the  Ninth, 
becomes  major  in  the  Fourth 
U.  S.  Veteran  Volunteers,  .  327 
does  guard  duty  over  the  pris- 
oners charged  with  the  assas- 
sination of  President  Lincoln, 
and  at  the  scaffold,  ....  328 

"  Capt.  Fuller,  a  veteran  of  the 
wave," 54 

Capt.  James  W.  Graham  is  made 
provost  marshal  at  Hilton 
Head,  S.  C., 336 

Capt.  Patrick  Garvey  is  directed 
to  make  certain  details,  .  .156 

Capt.  Michael  A.  Williams  ap- 
pointed on  a  board  to  exam- 
ine recruits  for  the  Ninth,  .  .  176 

Capt.  William  Wright,  .     .     .332,333 

Captured  flag  of  the  Third  Mis- 
sissippi,    212-238 

Captured  of  the  Ninth,  A  list  of 

the, 207 

Capture  of  a  Confederate  spy  by 
Lieut.  William  O'Keefe,  .  .  410 

Capture  of  a  contraband  sloop,  on 
Lake  Ponchartrain,  by  Capt. 
John  G.  Healy, 130 

Capture  of  New  Orleans,     .     .     .  332 

Carroll,  Lieut.  Daniel,  Mention  of,  323 

Carroll,  Lieut.  John,  Mention  of, 

70,  144,  166,  170,  323 

Carroll,  Lieut.  Wm.  H.,  Sketch 

of, 323,  324 

Carrollton,  La.,  courthouse,  Capt. 
John  G.  Healy  makes  an  ex- 
pedition to  the, 105 

Cassidy,  Dr.  Patrick,  of  Norwich,       8 
Catholic    chaplains,   Gov.    Buck- 
ingham    recommends     their 

appointment, 31 

Catholic  children  of  Waterbury 
participate  in  patriotic  cere- 
monies,   28 

Catholic  church  edifices,  The  Na- 
tional flag  displayed  on,  26,  27,  28 


Catholic  Church  in  The  Diocese 
of  Hartford,  History  of  The ,  1 1 

Catholic  priests  active  in  the  cause 

of  the  Union, 26 

Catholic  young  men  of  Waterbury 
organize  a  military  company, 

28,  325 

Cavan,  Ireland,      .     343,  344,  349,  352 

Cedar  Creek,  Va., 

2,  6,  194,  196,  197,  198,  199,  200, 
201,  205,  206,  207,  327,  350,  358 

Cemetery  at  Chalmette, 

146,  162,  211,  235 

Cemetery  on  Ship  Island,  Miss. ,       90 

Chagrined  at  his  defeat  at  Baton 
Rouge,  Gen.  Breckinridge 
throws  away  his  sword,  .  .125 

Chalmette,  La., 

96,  146,  162,  168,  169,  211,  235 

Chamberlain,  Gov.,  of  Connecti- 
cut, 

359,  366,  372,  382,  383,  384,  394, 
397,  404,  414 

Chaplain  Daniel  Mullen  celebrates 
Mass  on  Ship  Island,  .  .  64,  66 

Charge  of  the    Ninth  upon  the 

Third  Mississippi,       80,  81,  82,  84 

Charlestown,  Mass.,  Col.  Cahill 
born  in, 322 

"Charter  Oak  regiment,"  The,     .     32 

Chattahoola  Station, 

6,  132,  138,  139,  205,  206,  207 

Cherbourg,  The  French  govern- 
ment orders  the  Alabama  to 
leave  the  port  of,  ....  101 

Chief  Marshal's  orders  for  the  pa- 
rade at  dedication  of  the 
Ninth's  Monument,  .  .  366,  369 

Choctaw  Indians  captured,    .  131,  132 

Christmas,  1861,  on  Ship  Island,      66 

"  Church  call  on  Sunday,"  .     .     .153 

Cincinnati,  Society  of  the,  .     .     .  334 

Claffee, Lieut. Patrick  T.  .Sketch  of,  324 

Clancey,  Lieut.  Richard  A.,  Men- 
tion of, 170,  324 


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429 


Clare,  Ireland, 334,  336 

Clonmel,  Ireland, 347 

Coates,  Capt.  Thomas  C.,  Sketch 

of> 324 

Co.  B  of  the  Ninth  ordered  to  im- 
mediately report  to  Major 
Frye, 156 

Co.  C  of  the  Ninth  captures  par- 
ties attempting  to  run  the 
blockade, 162 

Coen,  Corporal  John  P.,  Death  of, 

52,  161,  162 

Coen,  Corporal  Michael  P.,  Sketch 
of, 325,  326 

Cole,  Lieut.  Andrew,  Mention  of, 

153,  167,  170,  323 

Color  bearers  of  the  Ninth  Bat- 
talion, at  Cedar  Creek,  Gal- 
lantry of  the, 200 

Colors  of  the  Ninth  Battalion,  C. 
V. ,  the  first  to  be  planted  on 
the  recaptured  works  of  the 
enemy  at  Cedar  Creek,  .  200,  201 

Colors  of  the  Ninth  Battalion  in 
the  van  of  all  other  flags  at 
Cedar  Creek, 201 

Colors  presented  the  Ninth,  43,  44,  45 

Colt's  regiment, 27 

Columbia  College,        333 

Commendation  of  the  Ninth  by 
Gen.  Butler, 84 

Commissioned  officers,  List  of, 
furnished  the  Union  Army 
by  the  Emmet  Guard  of  New 
Haven, 23,  24 

Committee  on  publication,      .     2,  7,  8 

Companies  of  the  Ninth  skirmish 

through  swamp, 132 

Company  Canal,  La. ,  An  incident 

at, 166 

Company  commanders  authorized 
to  enlist  "men  of  color"  as 
cooks, 170 

Confederate  batteries  at  Chal- 
mette,  La. ,  knocked  to  pieces,  96 


Confederate  gunboats  attack  a 
steamer  having  the  Ninth 
aboard,  .  .  .75,  76,  77,  78,  83 

Confederate  plot  to  recapture  New 
Orleans, 172 

Confederate  prisoners,  Paroled,  in 
Lafayette  Square,  New  Or- 
leans  167 

Confederate  spy,  Capture  of  a,     .  410 

Confederates  send    down    a  fire 

raft, 95,  96 

Confederates,  The,  consider  New 

Orleans  impregnable,  .     .     92,  94 

"Connecticut  Day,"  in  1885,  at 
the  New  Orleans  Exposition, 

220-238 

"  Connecticut  over  the  fence,"     51,  87 

Connecticut  papers  rebuke  Gov. 
Minor  for  disbanding  the  Irish 
companies,  ...  19,  20,  21,  22 

Connecticut  places  represented  in 

the  Ninth, 40 

Connecticut  regiments,  Estimated 
that  between  7,000  and  8,000 
men  of  Irish  birth  or  extrac- 
tion enlisted  in,  .  .  .  .  25,  26 

Connecticut  regiments  with  Sheri- 
dan,    188, 189 

"  Connecticut,  represented  by  the 
sons  of  the  ever  green  sham- 
rock,"   4,  125 

Connecticut  War  Record,  The, 

181,  410 

Connecticut's  opposition  to  Great 
Britain, 232 

Constitution,  The,  leaves  Boston 
for  Portland,  Me.,  en  route  to 
the  south,     .     .     .     .     54,  55,    56 
leaves  Portland,   Me.,  for  For- 
tress Monroe, 56,  57 

Connors,  Lieut.  Thomas,  Sketch 
of, 326,  327 

Cooke,  Gov.,  of  Connecticut,  at- 
tends obsequies  of  Chaplain 
Leo  Rizzo,  ....  .  .  351 


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A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


Coolness  of  the  Ninth  under  fire,  78 
Coogan,  Lieut.  John,  Sketch  of,  .  326 

Coppinger,  Gen., 393 

Corcoran,  Gen.  Michael,  (then 
a  captain),  visits  New  Haven 

in  1859, 23 

other  mention  of,  ...  413,  417 
Corcoran's  Irish  Legion,  .  .  23,  29 
Cork,  Ireland,  .  .  .  329,  341,  347 
County  Antrim,  Ireland,  .  .  .  344 
County  Cavan,  Ireland, 

343,  344,  349,  352 

County  Clare,  Ireland,  .  .  334, 336 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  .  329,  341,  347 
County  Kerry,  Ireland,  ....  348 
County  Leitrim,  Ireland,  .  .  .  343 
County  Louth,  Ireland,  ....  341 
County  Mayo,  Ireland,  ....  327 
County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  .  .  346 
County  Waterford,  Ireland,  .  .  353 
Crimmins,  Hon.  John  D.,  of  New 

York, 393 

Croffut- Morris  History  of  Con- 
necticut During  the  Recent 
War,  1861-1863, 

28,  63,  75,  97,  109,  129,  347,  411 
Cronan,   Sergt.   Michael,   Sketch 

of, 327 

Crook's  corps  broken  into  frag- 
ments,   198 

"Crossed  the  Potomac  at  Chain 

Bridge," 332 

Crowded  conditions  aboard    the 

Matanzas, 92 

Curran,  Capt.  Daniel,  of  the  Third 

Mississippi,  Sketch  of,  .     .     .  237 
Curtis,  Capt.  Elliot  M.,  Sketch  of, 

327,  328 
Curtis,  Lieut.  John  C.,  Sketch  of,  328 

Dahlgren  Guards  of  Pass  Chris- 
tian, Miss., 224,  237 

Daring  reconnoissance  by  Capt. 
Silas  W.  Sawyer  of  the  Ninth, 

119,  121 


Dashing  exploit  on  Lake  Pon- 
chartrain  by  Capt.  John  G. 
Healy, 130 

Davis  Literary  Institute,     ...     39 

Death  of  Gen.  Williams  at  battle 
of  Baton  Rouge,  115,  117,  120,  121 

Death    of    Lieut.    Frederick    M. 

Fairchild 112 

Death  of  Lieut.  Patrick  T. 
Claffee, 148,  152 

Deaths  in  the  Ninth  during  1863 
and  1864, 

178,  179,  180;  in  1865,  204 

Deaths  on  Ship  Island,    ....     90 

"  De  balance  done  gone  squan- 
dered,"   130 

Dedication  of  the  Ninth's  monu- 
ment,    356-406 

Dedication  of  this  volume,  ...       5 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  ...     6,  184,  188 

Deming,  Col.  Henry  C.,  70,  71,  87,  413 

Denison,  Rev.  Frederic,  on  Eng- 
land's sympathy  for  the  slave- 
holders' Rebellion,  .  .  .  .  101 

Department  of  the  Gulf,  some 
special  orders,  142,  143,  154,  155 

Departure  of  the  Ninth  from  New 
Haven,  in  July,  1864,  for  Ber- 
muda Hundred, 183 

Derby  Rifles,  The 15 

Detachment  of  the  Ninth  is  sent 
to  protect  negroes,  at  work  on 
plantations,  from  attacks  of 
guerillas, 203 

Diana,  Burton,  and  Sallie  Rob- 
inson, The  Ninth  embarks  on 
the, 108 

Disbandment  of  Irish  military 
companies  in  the  Bay  State,  15,  16 

Disbandment  of  Irish  military 
companies  in  Conn., 

15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22 

Dougherty's  plantation,    .     .  116,  126 

Downing,  Lieut.  Edmund,  Men- 
tion of, 328 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


Drawbacks  at  Pass  Manchac,  .     .  140 
Drawn    up    in    a    three-quarter 

square,  The  Ninth,  ....  43 
Dresher,  Ernest,  of  the  Ninth 

loads  and   fires    twice    after 

being  shot, 138 

Driscoll,    Hon.    C.   T.,    of    New 

Haven,     .     .     .  362,  393,  395,  399 

Dublin,  Ireland, 39,  322 

Duffy,  Capt.  John,  Sketch  of, 

328,  329 

Early,  Gen.,      .  189,  190,  194,  197,  198 
Early  Irish    military   officers    in 

Connecticut,  .     .     .     .     10,  n,  12 
Early 's  broken  columns  in  full  re- 
treat,    190 

Eastern  Bay  state  regiment, 

50,  53,  68,  70 

Eighth  Corps,  The,    188,  190,  191,  200 
Egan,    John,    presents    an    Irish 

pike  to  the  Ninth,  ....  45 
Eighteenth  Connecticut,  .  .  .188 
Ellis  Cliffs,  Bayou  Pierre  and 

Grand  Gulf in 

Eli  Whitney,  Guns  bought  of,  for 
the    Emmet  Guard  of   New 

Haven, 22,  23 

Emmet  Guard,  of  New  Haven, 

8,  22,  23,  26,  27,  31,  32,  33,  34, 
35,  38,  134,  181,  322,  337,  338, 
342,  343,  346,  352,  417 
Emory's  Corps  gives  way,   .     .     .  198 
Emory,   Gen.  W.    H.,   sends    an 

order  to  Col.  Cahill,  ....  134 
Enfield  rifles  for  the  Ninth,      .     .     54 
Engagements,  List  of,     ....      6 
"  England  tested  the  strength  of 
our  Union,  and,  to  her  sor- 
row, proved  its  power, "     .     .229 
England's  challenge  should  have 

been  accepted,  ....  99,  100 
England's  enmity  to  the  Union, 

97,  98,  99,  ioo,  101 
English,  Benjamin  R.,    .     ...  393 


English    steamer,    A    captured, 
brought  to  Ship  Island  by  a 
prize  crew,    .......     68 

Enniskillen,  Ireland,   .....  343 

Eighth  Vermont  regiment,  The, 
in  New  Haven,     .....  181 

Estimated  that  between  7000  and 
8000  men  of  Irish  birth  or  ex- 
traction enlisted  in  Connecti- 
cut regiments,      .     .     .     .     25,  26 

Estimated  value  of  property  de- 

stroyed by  the  A  labama,       .  101 
Evacuation  of  Baton  Rouge,    .     .  127 
Everett's  battery  at  the  battle  of 
Baton  Rouge,     ....  116,  121 

Expedition  against  guerillas,  .     .  162 
Expedition  against  New  Orleans,    43 
Expedition  to  West  Baton  Rouge, 
La.,     .........  no 

Exploit  by  Lieut.  John  C.  Curtis, 


"  Face  the  other  way,  boys  !  Face 
the  other  way  !"  .....  198 

Facts  relative  to  the  ten  compa- 
nies of  the  regiment,  ...  41 

Farewell  to  the  Ninth,     .     .  45,  46,  48 

Farragut's  great  force,     ....     94 

Fairchild,  Lieut.  Frederick  M., 
Sketch  of,  .......  329 

Fair  escutcheon  of  Connecticut, 
The  Know  Nothing  stain 
removed  from  the,  ....  30 

'  '  Father  Mullen  was  a  man  of  lit- 
erary culture  and  earnest  pa- 
triotism," .......  345 

"  Father  of  Waters,"  The  great,  .     91 

'  '  Fatigues  of  the  march  and  the 
dangers  of  the  field,"  .  .  .225 

Fenian  Movement,  The, 

325,  338,  342,  347,  402,  410 

Field  day  of  the  American-Irish 

Historical  Society,  360,  361,  362, 
363,  364,  365,  378,  392,  393,  394,  395, 
396,  397,  398,  399,  400,  401,  402,  403 


432 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


"Fifty  men  have  died,   and  are 
buried  there," 90 

Fifty  years  after, 13 

Finnegas,  Lieut.  Henry,  Mention 
of, 329 

Finn,  Rev.  Thomas  J.,     .     .     .     .  393 

4 '  Fires  of  the  bivouac  have  been 

extinguished," 223 

Fire  raft  sent  down  the  Missis- 
sippi by  the  Confederates,  95,  96 

"  Firing  as  we  advanced,"  .     .     .     81 

Firing  of  the  Ninth  creates  a  stam- 
pede among  horses  of  Fourth 
Massachusetts  Light  Battery, 

67,  68 

First  Connecticut  Cavalry,  .     1 8 8,  328 

First  Connecticut  Infantry, 

34,  329,  330 

First  regiment,  New  Orleans  Vol- 
unteers, Ass't  Surgeon  Avery 
of  the  Ninth  promoted  to  be 
surgeon  of  the, 321 

First  regimental  order  issued  to 

the  Ninth, 36 

Fisher's  Hill, 

6,   193,    194,  197,  205,  206,  332, 
358,  362 

Fitz  Gibbon,  Lieut.  Col.  Richard, 
Sketch  of,  ...  329,  330,  33i 

Fitz  Gibbon,  Lieut.  Thomas, 
Sketch  of, 331 

Five    companies    of     the    Ninth 

ordered  to  guard  a  train,  .     .139 

Five  Confederate  cassions  are  cap- 
tured by  Capt.  S.  W.  Sawyer 
of  the  Ninth,  ....  119,121 

Flag  of  the  Ninth  hoisted  upon 
the  lighthouse  at  Ship  Island, 
Miss 59 

Flag  of  the  Third  Mississippi,  Re- 
turn of  the  captured,  .  212,  238 

Flag  of  truce  sent  to  Col.  Cahill 
by  the  Confederate  Gen. 

Breckinridge, 124 

reply  of  Col.  Cahill,     .     .     .     .125 


Flags  of  the  Ninth  described, 

43,  44,  45 

Florida  coast  sighted,  The,      .     .     58 

Foley,  Capt.  John,  Sketch  of,  331,  332 

Foreign  Legion,  The,  of  New 
Orleans, 97,  98 

Fort  Banks,  Capt.  John  G.  Healy 
in  command  at 167 

Fort  Massachusetts,  Ship  Island, 
Miss., 59,  61 

Fort  Stockton,  Lieut.  Daniel 
O'Sullivan  has  charge  of  the 
construction  of  military  works 
at, 348 

Fortress  Monroe,  The  Ninth  ar- 
rives at, 57 

Forts  at  Hatteras,  The 174 

Forts  Jackson  and  St.  Philip,      93,  94 

"  Forward  the  Ninth  !  "    .     .     .     .     33 

Foster,  E.  K. ,  Presentation  speech 
by,  43 

Four  companies  of  the  Ninth  on 
provost-guard  duty  at  New 
Orleans, 129 

Fourth  Louisiana  Infantry  (Con- 
federate),   6 1 

Fourth  U.  S.  Artillery,  Capt.  T. 

C.  Coates  serves  in  the,     .     .  324 

Franciscan  Order,  Chaplain  Leo 
Rizzo  a  member  of  the,  350,  351 

French,  Capt. ,  of  the  Fourteenth 
Maine,  Sad  fate  of,  .  .  .  .118 

French  government  orders  the 
Alabama  to  leave  the  port  of 
Cherbourg, 101 

Freshly-written  dispatch  found 
in  the  abandoned  tent  of  the 
Confederate  commander  at 
Pass  Christian,  Miss. ,  ...  80 

Frye,  Major,  of  the  Ninth,  hoists 
flag  of  the  Ninth  on  the  light- 
house at  Ship  Island,  Miss.,  .     59 
sketch  of  Major  Frye,  .     .     333,  334 

Furious  onslaught  by  Gen.  Early, 

197,  198 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


433 


Furlough  of  the  re-enlisted  veter- 
ans of  the  Ninth,  .  .  180,181 

Galberry,  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop,  of 
Hartford, 345 

Gallagher,  James,  of  New  Haven, 
Presentation  speech  by,  .  45,  46 

Gallagher,  Mr.,  of  New  Haven, 
introduces  a  resolution  in  the 
General  Assembly  to  reinstate 
the  disbanded  Irish  military 
companies,  of  Connecticut,  .  29 

Gallagher,  Surg.,  Chas.  A.,  Sketch 

of, 334 

Gallantry  of  color  bearers  of  the 
Ninth  Battalion  at  Cedar 
Creek, 200 

Gardner,  Gov.,  of  Massachusetts, 

15,  16 

Gargan,  Address  by  Hon.  Thomas 

J-, 398 

Garvey,  Capt.  Patrick,  Sketch 
of 334,  335 

General  Assembly  of  Connecticut, 

29,  30,  31,  213,  354 

German  company  of  New  Haven, 
(1855),  not  disbanded,  .  .  .  16 

Glebe  Building,  The,  New  Haven,     12 

Gleeson,  Lieut.,  Wm.,  Sketch  of,  335 

Gleeson,  Rev.  James  J., 

358,  374,  383,  384 

Graham,  Capt.  James  W.,  Sketch 

of, 335,  336 

Grant,  Gen.,  visits  Sheridan,  .     .  189 

Great  Swamp  Fight,  The,  (1675),     10 

Griffin,  M.  H.,  a  patriotic  citizen 

of  Middletown, 28 

Goodman,  Lieut.  Lewis  H.,  Men- 
tion of, 158,  335 

Governor's  Foot  Guard, 

181,  338,  362,  366,  372,  382,  383,  414 

Gowan,  Major  George,  Address 
of,  at  New  Orleans,  .  .  226-228 

Guidons  of  Mississippi  and  Con- 
necticut displayed 223 


Gulf  coast  of  Louisiana,  The,       .     91 
Guns  bought  of  Eli  Whitney  for 
the    Emmet  Guard   of  New 
Haven, 22,  23 

Haggerty,  Capt.  Peter,  of  Gen. 
Butler's  staff 72 

Hampton  Roads,  The  Ninth  in,  .     57 

Harbison,  Hon.  Alexander,  of 
Hartford, 395 

Harper's  Ferry, 189,  193 

Harral,  Q.  M.  Wm.  W.,  Sketch 

of, 337 

Harrison,  Gov,  Henry  B.,  of 
Conn., 214,  215,  219 

Hartford  convention,  The,     .  234,  235 

Hartford,  Rendezvous  of  the  Ninth 
first  established  at,  .  .  32,  34 

Hart,  Rev.  Father,  of  New  Haven, 
addresses  the  re-enlisted  vet- 
erans of  the  Ninth,  .  .  181,  182 

Hartford,  The,  Farragut's  flag- 
ship,   94 

Harwood,  Rev.  Mr 43 

Hayes,  Dr.  John  F.,  of  Water- 
bury,  395,  399 

Healy,  Bartholomew,  New  Haven, 
entertains  the  Emmet  Guard,  35 

Healy,  Col.  John  G.,  Sketch  of, 

337,  338,  339,  340,  34i 

Healy,   Principal  Musician  John 

E.,  Sketch  of 341 

Healy,  Thomas,  Interesting  event 
in  1861  at  the  residence  of,  (in 
New  Haven), 38 

Healy's  hotel,  New  Haven,  meet- 
ing at 27 

Heavy  losses  of  the  Ninth  near 
Vicksburg,  Miss., 

108,  109,  no,  in,  112 

Hendricken,  Rev.  Thomas  F.,  of 
Waterbury,  patriotic  action 
of, 28,  325 

Hennessey, Capt.  James  P.,  Sketch 
of, 34i,  342 


434 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


Hennessey,  Richard,  the  youngest 

member  of  the  Ninth,    ...     42 
"  Heroes  of  Revolutionary  fame," 

The 229 

Hibernia  Bank,  New  Orleans,      .  237 
Hibernian  Hall,  New  Haven,  .     .     27 
"  Hibernian,     Montgomery,    and 
Carmen  societies  of  New  Ha- 
ven,"    23 

Hibernian  Rifle  regiment,  .  362,  372 
Hierlehy,  Capt.  Timothy,  (1758),  u 
Higgins,  Lieut.  Cornelius,  (1759),  n 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C.,  The  Ninth 

Battalion  ordered  to,     .     .     .  203 
His  Last  March  (A  poem),     399,  400 
History  of  The  Catholic  Church 
In    The    Diocese    of   Hart- 
ford,"        u 

Hodge,  Justin,  adjutant  general  of 

Conn., 17,  18 

Hollister,  John  C.,  adjutant  gen- 
eral of  Conn.,      .     .     .     13,16,17 
Hostility  toward  the  North  shown 

by  England 99 

Hughes,  Rev.  Christopher,  of  Fall 

River,  Mass., 394 

Hughes,  Very  Rev.  James,  at  the 

obsequies  of  Chaplain  Mullen,  345 
Hurley,  John  F.,     .     .     8,  49,  395,  396 

Important  information  given,  (in 
1855),  Capt.  T.  W.  Cahill  and 
Lieut.  Patrick  Maher,  of  the 
Washington  -  Erina  Guards, 
by  Capt.  Ruckoldt  of  New 

Haven 16 

"  I  chose  the  Ninth  Connecticut," 

(Gen.  Butler) 161 

Infantry,   cavalry,    and  artillery, 
Connecticut  men  of  Irish  ex- 
traction represented  in  the,    .     26 
Invasion  of  Canada,  The  Fenian,   325 
Irish  Brigade,  Meagher's,     .     29,  105 
Irish  buoyancy  of  the  Ninth,    .     .     47 
Irish  clan  names, 409 


Irish  emblems  on^state  flag  of  the 
Ninth, 45 

Irish  flag,  An,  loaned  the  Ninth 
Battalion  by  the  Jasper 
Greens,  of  Savannah,  .  .  .  203 

Irish  freedom,  The  cause  of,  .     .     347 

Irish  from  Connecticut  in  the  war 

with  Mexico, 12 

in  the  war  of  1812, 12 

Irish  Fusiliers,  of  New  York,  visit 
New  Haven, 23 

Irish  heroes  who  wore  the  blue,    .     26 

Irish  hospitality,  The  Emmet 
Guard  of  New  Haven  dis- 
plays true 23 

Irish  language,   The,   spoken  in 

the  Ninth, 409 

Irish  Legion,  Corcoran's,     .     .    23,  29 

Irishmen  from  Norwich,  A  fine 

company  of, 28,  29 

"  Irishmen  of  the  Ninth  Connecti- 
cut, were  like  the  Irishmen 
in  all  armies  in  all  countries, 
very  excellent  soldiers,"  .  .161 

Irish  military  companies  dis- 
banded in  the  Bay  State,  15,  1 6 

Irish  military  companies  of  Con- 
necticut disbanded  by  the 
Know  Nothing  administra- 
tion, 15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22 

Irish  military  companies  of  Con- 
necticut, Justice  done  the  dis- 
banded  29,  30,  31 

Irish  military  officers  in  Con- 
necticut, Early,  .  .  .  10,  n,  12 

Irish  names  in  the  Lexington 
Alarm  List n 

Irish  names  on  the  Connecticut 
rolls  of  the  war  of  1812,  .  .  12 

Irish  names  on  the  Revolutionary 
rolls  of  Connecticut,  .  .  .  1 1 

Irish  pike  presented  the  regi- 
ment   45,  46 

Irish  pioneers  and  settlers  in  Con- 
necticut,   u 


A   GENERAL  INDEX. 


435 


Irish  regiment,  A  second,  pro- 
jected in  Connecticut,  .  410,  417 

Irish  regiment  for  the  war  with 
Spain,  Project  to  organize  in 
Connecticut  an,  .  338,  339,  340 

Irish  regiment,  Gov.  Bucking- 
ham favors  the  organization 
of  an, 31 

Irish  regiments  in  the  Union 

army,  Many, 29 

"Irish  regiment,"  The,     .     .     32,380 

Irish  soldiers  from  Connecticut 
in  "The  Great  Swamp 
Fight,"  (1675), 10 

Irish,  The  six,  companies  (1855), 
had  many  friends  in  the  state,  16 

Jackson,  Andrew,  .  .  59,  229,  235 
Jackson  Guards,  of  New  Haven, 

14,  334 

Jackson  Guards,  of  Norwich,  .  .  14 
Jackson  Musketeers,  The,  of 

Lowell,  Mass., 15 

James  and  Appomattox  rivers,  .  183 
Jasper  Greens,  The,  of  Savannah, 

Ga., 203 

Jepson,  Prof.  Benjamin, 

359,  374,  379,  384,  385 
"John  Bell  was  engaged  to  make 

the  uniforms," 22 

Johnson,  Major  Albert  M.,    .  366,372 
Jones,  Col.  E.  F.,  of  the  Twenty- 
sixth  Massachusetts, 

52,  53,  54,  56,  65,  66 
Judge,  Frank,   of  the  Ninth,   is 
struck  by  a  ball  which  goes 
through  his  arm  and  lodges 

in  his  side, 139 

Jusserand,  M.,  (French  ambassa- 
dor),   365 

Kattenstroth,  Adjutant  Henry, 
Mention  of,  .  .  .  .  153,  342 

Kearsarge  and  the  Alabama, 
Conflict  between  the,  .  .  .  101 

29 


Kearsarge,  The,  and  Capt.  Wins- 
low,  101 

"  Keep  them  at  it !  " 82 

Keeny,  Capt.  Joseph,  (1729),  .  .  n 
Keeny,  Ensign  John,  (1730),  .  .  n 
Keeny,  Ensign  Richard,  (1731),  .  n 

Kenmare,  Ireland, 348 

Kennedy,  Lieut.  Michael,  Men- 
tion of, 342 

Kennedy,  Rev.  P.  M.,     ....  359 

Kerry,  Ireland, 348 

Kershaw's  Division,  .  .  .  197,  198 
Killed  of  the  Ninth,  A  list  of,  .  .  205 

Kilkenny,  Ireland, 326 

King's  County,  Ireland,  ....  324 
Knights  of  Columbus, 

346,  362,  368,  373 
Knights     of     St.    Patrick,    New 

Haven, 346,  392 

Know  Nothing  administration  dis- 
bands Irish  Military  compa- 
nies, 

15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22,  324 

334 

"  Know  Nothing  party  was  soon 
tumbled  from  power,''  ...  22 

Know  Nothing  regime  in  Massa- 
chusetts,   15,  16 

Lacey,  Lieut.  David,  (1756).     .     .     n 

Lacy,  Capt.  Thaddeus,  (1769),       .     n 

Lafayette  Square,  New  Orleans, 
Headquarters  of  the  Ninth 
established  in, 128 

La  Fourche  Crossing,  Engage- 
ment at, 

6,  132,   133,  134,  135,  136,  137, 
139,  140,  163 

Lake  End,  La.,  Co.  Con  detached 
service  at, 162,  219 

Lake  Maurepas,      .     .     .     .     129,  164 

Lake  Ponchartrain, 

104,  105,  106,  129,  130 

"  Lakeport,  Proctor ville  and  Chal- 
mette," 132 


436 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


' '  Land  of  the  magnolia  and  the 

orange," 227 

Lawler,    Lieut.    James,    Sketch 

of, 342 

Lawler,  Lieut.  Joseph  H.,  Sketch 

of, 342 

Lawler,  Lieut.  Thomas  C.,  Sketch 

of, 343 

Leave  of  absence  is  granted  Col. 

Cahill, 154 

Lee ,  Capt.  William  A. ,  Mention  of,  343 
Lee,  Gen.  Fitz  Hugh,  .  .  .  .226 
Leesburg,  Va.,  The  Ninth 

reaches, 188 

Leitrim,  Ireland, 343 

Leonard,  Private  John,  of  Co.  A, 

wounded  at  Pass  Christian,  .     80 
Letter  from  Hon.  H.  Wales  Lines, 

403,  404 
Letter  from  President  Roosevelt, 

363,  364 

Letter  from  the  French  ambas- 
sador,   365 

Letter  from  the  German  ambas- 
sador,   364,  365 

Lexington  Alarm  List,  Irish 
names  in  the, n 

Libby  prison, 328 

Lieut.  Andrew  Cole  is  appointed 
regimental  recruiting  officer 
for  the  Ninth, 170 

Lieut.    Col.    Fitz   Gibbon    takes 
command    "of  all  convales- 
cents now  in  Lafayette  Square," 
New  Orleans 167 

Lieut.  Daniel  O 'Sullivan  is  ap- 
pointed inspector  of  bureau  of 
plantations  and  abandoned 
lands,  with  headquarters  at 

New  Orleans, 348 

travels    extensively    after    the 
war, 348,  349 

Lieut.  William  Gleeson  one  of 
the  first  to  enlist  in  the  Ninth,  335 

Limerick,  Ireland,      324,  338,  342,  346 


Lincoln,  President, 

25,  173,  328,  330,  386 

Line  of  battle  formed  by  the 
Ninth,  at  Baton  Rouge,  in  a 
corn-field, 120 

Lines,  Ass't  Surg.  Jairus  F.,  Men- 
tion of, 343 

Lines,    Letter    from     Hon.     H. 

Wales, 403,  404 

Location  of  the  Ninth  at  Camp 
Parapet,  La., 104 

Lossing  on  England's  sympathy 
for  the  Confederacy,  .  .  .  100 

Louisiana  Guards,  The,  of  New 
Orleans, 230 

Louisiana,  The  Gulf  coast  of,  .     .     91 

Louisiana,  Third,  Native  Guards, 

132,  153 

Lounsbury,  Hon.  P.  C.,  Address 
of,  at  New  Orleans,  .  .  228-231 

Louth,  Ireland, 341 

Loyal  Legion,  Military  Order  of 
the 338,  344 

Lynch,  Bernard  E.,  of  New  Ha- 
ven,   357,  373,  396 

Lyon,  Capt.  John,  (1728),     ...     n 

Lyon,  Lieut.  Daniel,  (1756),     .     .     n 

"  Lyon  regiment,"  The,       ...     32 

Magee's  cavalry,       .     70,  88,  113,  122 

"  Magnificent  fields  of  cotton  and 
sugar  cane," 106 

Magnolia  cemetery,  Baton  Rouge, 

117,  122 

Maguire,  Capt.  Thomas,      ...     28 

Maher,  Lieut.  John  Jr.,  of  New 
Haven,  (1855), 15 

Maher,  Patrick, 

8,  12,  16,  22,  23,  396,  397,  410,  417 

Major  Frederick  Frye  in  com- 
mand at  Pass  Manchac,  .  .  129 

Manchac  Pass, 

6,  129,  158,  159,  164,  165,  172,  207 

Manning's  battery  at  the  battle  of 
Baton  Rouge,  ....  116,  119 


A   GENERAL  INDEX. 


437 


Many  soldiers  who    had    served 
under  Gen.  Twiggs  enlist  in 

the  Ninth, 160 

Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,       .     .     10 
Mass  at  Camp  Welch,  New  Ha- 
ven,       40 

Mass  at  St.  John's  Church,  New 

Haven,  the  Ninth  attends,     .     40 
Mass  in  New  Orleans  for  the  de- 
ceased wife  of  Gen.  Beaure- 

gard, 164 

Mass  on  Ship  Island,  Miss.,  .  64,  66 
Matanzas,  Ninth  embarks  aboard 

the, 90 

Mathew,  Father,  visits  New  Ha- 
ven,      322 

Maurepas,  Lake,  ....  129,  164 
Maxwell  J.  R.,  .  .  .  356,358,396 

Mayo,  Ireland, 327 

McAdoo,  Hon.  William, 

363,  393,  394,  397 
McCarten,  Capt.  Michael,  Sketch 

of, 343 

McCusker,  Lieut.  John,  Sketch 

of, 343 

McDonough,  Michael,  of  Co.  C, 

wounded  in  the  engagement 

off  Mississippi  City,  ....  78 
McFarland,  Rt.  Rev.,  Bishop,  .  350 
McGowan  Guards,  The,  of  New 

Haven, 27 

McGunnigall,  Lieut.  James,  Jr., 

(i759), ii 

McKenna,   Lieut.   Henry,  Sketch 

of, 343 

McKeon,  Lieut.  Francis,  Sketch 

of, 344 

McKiernan,  Capt.  Patrick,  of  Nor- 
wich,   14, 18 

McMahon, Capt.  Patrick, of  Derby,  15 
McManus,  Capt.  Edward,  of 

Hartford, 14 

McManus,  Gen.  Thomas,  ...  8 
McNeil,  Surg.  Rollin,  .  .  2,  8,  344 
Meagher's  Irish  brigade,  .  .29,  105 


Medal  of  Honor  Legion,  U.  S.,    .  397 

Meeting  at  New  Haven  in  1849  to 
organize  the  Washington- 
Erina  Guards,  12 

Men  from  the  Ninth  detailed  to 
Everett's  and  Nims'  batteries 
at  Baton  Rouge, 121 

Men  from  the  Ninth  in  charge  of 

i2-pounder  rifled  guns,      .     .  165 

Mexican  Gulf  railroad,  Detail  from 
the  Ninth  guards  the,  .  .  .  129 

Mexico,  The  war  with,  .     12,  324,  414 

Middle  military  division,  .     .  194,  195 

Middletown,  M.  H.  Griffin  of,       .     28 

Military  defences  of  New  Orleans 
commanded  by  Col.  Cahill, 
acting  brigadier  general,  128,  129 

Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Le- 
gion,    338,  344 

Millington,  Lieut.  Thomas,  Men- 
tion of, 344 

Minor,  Gov. ,  of  Connecticut, 

15,  16,  17,  18,  20,  21,  22,  29 

Montgomery, Gen.  Phelps,  370,  387,  395 

Montgomery  Guards,  of  Bridge- 
port  15,  20,  21,  324 

Monument,     Dedication    of    the 

Ninth's, 356-406 

Moran,  Col.  James,  of  Providence, 
R.  I., 401,  402 

Morehouse,    Lieut.    George    N., 

Mention  of, 344 

Morris,  Gov.  Luzon  B.,  .     .     8,  9,  338 

Mosby's  cavalry,    .     .     .  191,  328,  329 

Movement  across  the  river  to  the 
neighborhood  of  St.  Charles' 
Court  house, 128 

Movement,  The,  against  Pass 
Christian,  Miss.,  .  75,  76,  77,  78 

Mullen,  Chaplain  Daniel,  Sketch 
of, 344,  345 

Mullen,  Sergt.  James  T.,  Sketch 

of 344,  346 

Mullins,  Lieut.  Michael,  Sketch 
of 346 


438 


A    GENERAL   INDEX. 


Muster  out  of  the  Ninth  Battalion,  204 
' '  Mysterious  sounds  like  the  dull, 

heavy  tramp  of  an  army,"      .   198 

Names  and  residences  of  officers 
and  men  of  the  Ninth  who 
died  in  1862, 

146,  147,  148,  149,  150,  151 

Narrow  escape  of  two  officers  of 
the  Ninth, 77 

National  Blues,  The, 181 

National  flag  displayed  on  Catholic 
church  edifices,  ...  26,  27,  28 

Nearly  2500  men  in  the  hospitals 
at  Baton  Rouge, 114 

Near  the  lighthouse,  The  Ninth 

located, 59 

Negro  cavalry,  Battalion  of,  dis- 
armed,   166,  167 

New  England  Division,  Butler's,      43 

New  Haven  board  of  education,     323 

New  Haven  Colony  Historical  So- 
ciety,   393 

New  Haven  Grays,  The,      .     .     .181 

New  Haven  greets  the  Ninth  bat- 
talion on  its  return  home  after 
muster  out, 204 

New  Haven,  The  Eight  Vermont 
regiment  in 181 

New  London,  The  U.  S.  gunboat, 

61,  73,  162 

New  Orleans,  An  order  for  the 
movement  against,  ....  72 

New  Orleans,  Capture  of,     ...  332 

New  Orleans,  Military  defences 
of,  commanded  by  Col.  Cahill, 
acting  brigadier  general,  128,  129 

New  Orleans,  The  loss  of,  a  stag- 
gering blow  to  the  Confeder- 
ates,   95 

Newtown,  Ct.,  academy,     .     .     .  329 

Nims'  battery  at  the    battle    of 

Baton  Rouge,     .     .     116,  118,  121 

Nims,  Capt.    O.  F.,    Letter  from, 

416,  417 


Nineteenth  Army  Corps, 

8,  132,  159,   169,  177,   187,   188, 
189,  190,  194,  338 

"  Ninety  days  would  have  en- 
listed Irishmen  enough  to 
take  Canada," 100 

Ninth  arrives  at  Ship  Island,  Miss. ,  59 

Ninth  battalion  cheers  Sheridan 
as  he  arrives  from  Winchester,  197 

Ninth  battalion, The,  welcomed  to 

New  Haven,  after  muster  out,  204 

Ninth's  delegation  visits  New  Or- 
leans to  return  flag  of  the 
Third  Mississippi,  .  .  215,  237 

Ninth's  departure,  The,  from 
Camp  Chase, 52,  53 

Ninth  embarks  for  a  point  near 
Vicksburg, 108 

Ninth  en  route  to  Baton  Rouge, 

La., 106 

Ninth  goes  to  Biloxi,  Miss.,  to 
avenge  Confederate  outrage, 

73,  74,  75 

Ninth  goes  into  quarters  at  Camp 
Parapet 103 

Ninth,  Heavy  losses  of  the,  near 

Vicksburg,  108,  109,  no,  in,  112 

Ninth  is  ordered  to  embark  on 
the  Matanzas  for  the  South 
West  Pass,  88,89 

"  Ninth  held  the  advance,"  The,    202 

Ninth  is  selected  by  Gen.  Butler 
to  parade  through  New  Or- 
leans,   97 

Ninth  lands  at  Biloxi,     .     .     .     79,  8 1 

Ninth  lands  at  Pass  Christian, 

Miss.,  79 

Ninth  leaves  Lowell  for  Boston 
and  embarks  on  the  Constitu- 
tion,    52,  53 

Ninth  leaves  New  Haven  for 
Camp  Chase, 47,  48 

Ninth  leaves  New  Orleans  for 
Carrollton  and  Camp  Parapet, 


La. 


102 


A    GENERAL  INDEX, 


439 


Ninth  leaves  Ship  Island  for  the 
South  West  Pass,  .  .  go,  91,  92 

Ninth  observes  Washington's  an- 
niversary, (1862),  .  .  .  68,  69 

Ninth,  Present  survivors  of  the, 

418,  419,  420 

Ninth  proceeds  up  the  Mississippi, 

92,  93 

Ninth  receives  its  arms  at  Ship 
Island,  Miss., 62 

Ninth  regiment,  Preliminary  steps 
toward  the  formation  of  the, 

3i.  32,  33 
recruiting  for,      .     32,  33,  34,  35,  36 

Ninth  Regiment  Veteran  Asso- 
ciation,   2,  7 

Ninth  returns  to  Ship  Island  from 
Pass  Christian,  .  .  .  .  80,  81 

Ninth,  Reunions  by  survivors  of 
the, 208 

Ninth's  band  enlivens  the  trip 
down  Boston  harbor,  ...  55 

Ninth's  losses  at  the  battle  of 
Baton  Rouge, 121 

Ninth's  Roster,  The,     .     .     .     241-320 

Ninth's  routine  at  Ship  Island, 
Miss., 62 

Ninth,  The,  aboard  the  Constitu- 
tion, arrives  at  Portland,  Me. ,  56 

Ninth,  The,  accepted  by  Gen.  B. 
F.  Butler  for  his  New  Eng- 
land Division, 43 

Ninth,  The,  at  Pass  Christian  re- 
ceives the  fire  of  two  Confed- 
erate pieces  of  artillery,  .  .  84 

Ninth,  The,  in  Washington,  D.  C., 

184,  185 

Ninth,  The,  occupies  the  right  of 
line  at  a  review  in  which  par- 
ticipates thirteen  regiments, 
five  batteries  of  artillery  and 
three  companies  of  cavalry,  87,  88 

Ninth,  The,  part  of  an  expedition- 
ary force  under  Gen.  Wil- 
liams,   108,  109,  no 


Ninth,  The,  thrown  forward  as 

skirmishers, 128 

Ninth,  The,  under  fire  off  Missis- 
sippi City,  75,  76,  77,  78,  83,  84,  85 

Ninth  transferred  to  New  Or- 
leans, from  Camp  Parapet, 
and  its  headquarters  are  es- 
tablished in  Lafayette  Square,  128 

Ninth  under  fire  aboard  the  Ma- 
tanzas, 93 

Ninth  warmly  commended  by 

Gen.  Butler, 84 

North  road,  The  Ninth  marches 
along  the,  (at  the  battle  of 
Baton  Rouge), 120 

Norwalk  records,  The,     .     .     .     .     10 

Norwich,  A  fine  company  of  Irish- 
men from, 28,  29 

O'Beirne,  Gen.  James  R. , 

394,  396,  398,  399 

O'Brien,  Capt.  Lawrence,  Sketch 
of ,  .  ....  346,  347 

O'Donnell,  Rev.  James  H.,  .     .     .11 

O'Keefe,  Lieut.  William,  Sketch 

of, 347,  348 

O'Neil,  Private  Mark,  of  Co.  D, 
assassinated  in  New  Orleans,  97 

O'Reilly,  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop,  of 
Springfield,  Mass.,  ....  345 

O'Rourke,  Hon.  Jeremiah,  of 
Newark,  N.  J., 395 

O 'Sullivan,  Lieut.  Daniel,  Sketch 
of, 348,  349 

Obsequies  of  Chaplain  Leo  Rizzo, 

350,  351 

Obsequies  of  Chaplain  Mullen,  .     345 

Officers  of  the  Ninth  witness  tar- 
get practice  by  artillery,  .  .  65 

One  company  of  the  Ninth  at  Al- 
giers, opposite  New  Orleans,  129 

One  Hundred  and  Seventy-Sixth 
New  York  in  a  provisional 
brigade  with  the  Ninth  Con- 
necticut,   173 


440 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


"  One  hundred  rounds  of  ammu- 
nition per  man," 156 

Opequan  Creek,  Va., 189 

Oration  by  Rev.  William  J. 
Slocum 384,  385 

Order,  The  Franciscan,  Chaplain 
Leo  Rizzo  a  member  of,  350,  351 

Oreto,  The,  runs  the  blockade  at 

Mobile  under  English  colors,  100 

Original  members  of  the  Wash- 
ington -  Erina  Guards,  New 
Haven,  who  were  living  fifty 
years  after  organization  of  the 
company, 13,  14 

' '  Our  colors  were  the  first  planted 
on  the  recaptured  works, "  200,  201 

Outpost  at  Proctorville,  La.,    .     .  332 

Palmer,  Lieut.  Charles  S. , 

70,  143,  144,  158,  349 

Parade  of  the  Ninth  through  New 
Orleans, 97 

Parish  of  St.  Charles,  La.,  .     .     .  132 

Parish  of  St.  James,  La., 

8,  174,  217,  219 

Parish  prison,  New  Orleans,  Capt. 
Lawrence  O'Brien  appointed 
on  a  commission  to  investi- 
gate the, 174 

Paroled  prisoners, Capt.  Lawrence 
O'Brien  is  ordered  to  bring 
them  from  Ship  Island  to  New 
Orleans, 155 

Paroled  U.  S.  soldiers  taken  to 
Ship  Island  by  Capt.  Law- 
rence O'Brien 155 

Pass  Christian,  Miss.,  The  fight 
at,  4,  6,  75,  79,  80,  81,  82,  83,  84,  85 

Pass  Manchac,  La., 

6,  129,  164,  165,  172,  207 

Passes  of  the  Blue  Ridge,    .     .     .  194 

Passes  of  the  Mississippi,     ...     92 

Phillips,  Rev.  Watson  L.,  .     359,  374 

Pigott,  Hon.  James  P.,  of  New 
Haven,  ....  346,  357,  410 


Pilot    Town,     La.,     The    Ninth 

passes 92,  93 

Pistols  presented  Sergeants  Mc- 

Kenna  and  Gately 38 

Platt,  U.  S.  Senator,  of  Connecti- 
cut,   402,  403 

"  P.  McLaughlin,  orderly  ser- 
geant,"   23 

Poem:  His  Last  March^     .    399,  400 
Poem:   The  Soldiers'  Monument, 

407,  408 
Ponchartrain,  Lake, 

104,  105,  106,  129,  130 

Porter's  flotilla, 93.  94 

Port  Hudson,     .     .     107,  135,  165,  174 
"Passed  the   Fourth  Wisconsin, 
Sixth    Michigan    and    Ninth 
Connecticut  marching  out,"      113 
Patrick,  Capt.  Daniel,     .     .     .     .     10 
Patriotic  action  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
F.  Hendricken,  of  Waterbury, 

28,  325 

Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America,  391 
Payne,  Lieut.  Addis  E., 

139,  145,  153,  167,  349 
"  Peace  restored,  reconstruction 
complete,  brotherhood  re-es- 
tablished,"    227 

Pequod  war,  The, 10 

Petition  to  Gen.  Butler,  from 
residents  of  New  Orleans,  to 
have  the  Ninth  remain  in  La- 
fayette Square, 161 

Phelps,  Gen.,  Proclamation  by,    .     62 
Port  Republic,  Sheridan  destroys 
a    Confederate   wagon   train 

at, 194 

Posters,  Ninth's  recruiting,     .     33,  34 

Preface,  By  way  of, 7 

Preparing  for  the  battle  of  Baton 

Rouge, 113,  114 

Presentation  address  by  William 

Downes,  Esq., 38 

Presentation,  by  patriotic  ladies, 
of  useful  outfit, 46 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


441 


Presentation  of  a  cane  to  Capt. 

Daniel  Curran  of  the  Third 

Mississippi,  ....  237,  238 
Presentation  of  an  Irish  pike  to 

the  Ninth, 45,  46 

Presentation  of  colors  to  the 

Ninth, 43,  44,  45 

Presentation  speech  by  James 

Gallagher,  of  New  Haven,  45,46 
Presentation  speech  by  Judge 

Foster, 43 

Presentation  speech  by  Robert 

Scully, 39 

Presentation  to  Capt.  Duffy,  .  .  38 
Presentation  to  Capt.  James  P. 

Hennessey,  44 

Presentation  to  Capt.  McCarten's 

company, 37 

Presentation  to  Capt.  Michael 

McCarten,   and  Lieuts.  John 

G.  Healy  and  John  Shaw,  .  38 
Presentation  to  Lieut.  Daniel 

Carroll, 39 

Presentation  to  Lieut.  Lawrence 

O'Brien, 38 

Presentation  to  Lieuts.  Clinton 

and  Burk  of  Capt.  Wright's 

company, 39 

Presentation  to  Sergts.  McKenna 

and  Gately, 38 

"Private  Ralph  O.  Rowley  of 

Magee's  Cavalry,"  .  .  .  .122 
Privations  of  the  Ninth  at  Ship 

Island,  Miss., 63 

Proclamation  by  Gen.  Phelps,  .  62 
Programme  at  dedication  of 

Ninth's  monument,  ....  374 
Prompt  action  by  Gen.  Butler 

against  the  British  Guard  of 

New  Orleans, 98 

Provisional  brigade,  The  Ninth 

forms  part  of  a, 173 

Provost  guard  of  Baton  Rouge, 

Capt.    Lawrence    O'Brien  in 

command  of,  .121 


Provost  marshal  and  judge  of  the 
Parish  of  St.  James,  La., Capt. 
Lawrence  O'Brien  holds  the 
positions  of, 174 

Provisional  guard  at  Savannah, 
Ga.,  commanded  by  Lieut. 
Col.  Healy 203 

Quartermaster  Fitz  Gibbon, 

splendid  service  by,  .  .  -33* 

Queen's  County,  Ireland,      .  326,  331 

' '  Quick  to  plan  and  prompt  to  act " 
(Tribute  to  Lieut. -Col.  Rich- 
ard Fitz  Gibbon),  331 

Quinn,  Rev.  Father,  lectures  in 

Hartford, 35 

Rally  by  men  from  the  Ninth 
Connecticut  and  Twenty-first 
Indiana, 118 

Reception  in  New  Haven  to  the 
re  -  enlisted  veterans  of  the 
Ninth  on  furlough,  .  .  180,  181 

Reconnoissance  by  the  Ninth  in 
Virginia 193 

Reconnoissance  north  of  Pass 
Manchac 131 

Recruiting  for  the  Ninth, 

32,  33,  34.  35,  36 

Recruiting  Posters  for  the  Ninth, 

33,  34 

Reed's  plantation,  La 119 

"  Refugees  come  in  daily,"       .     .  129 
Reilly,  Sergt.  Philip,  Sketch  of, 

349,  350 

Religious  manual  for  soldiers  dis- 
tributed to  members  of  the 
Ninth  by  Chaplain  Mullen,    .  345 
Rendezvous    of    the    Ninth  first 

established  at  Hartford,  .     32,  34 
Resolution  to  reinstate   the   dis- 
banded   Irish    military   com- 
panies of  Connecticut,      .     29,  30 
Return    from    Baton    Rouge    to 
Camp  Parapet, 127 


442 


A    GENERAL   INDEX. 


Return  of  the  captured  flag  of  the 
Third  Mississippi.  .  .  .  212-238 

Return  of  the  Ninth  to  Baton 
Rouge,  from  work  on  the 
"cut-off"  canal  near  Vicks- 
burg, no,  112 

Reviews  and  inspections  on  Ship 
Island,  .  .  65,  66,  69,  70,  87,  88 

"Revolving  light  on  a  distant 
reef," 58 

Revolutionary  rolls  of  Connecti- 
cut, Irish  names  on  the,  .  .  n 

Revolution,  The  American, 

44,  364,  4H 

Reynolds,  James,  of  New  Haven, 
accompanies   Ninth's  delega- 
tion to  New  Orleans,     .     215,  219 
Riley,  Lieut.  Roger,  (1767),      .     .     n 
Rizzo,   Rev.   Leo  succeeds  Rev. 
Daniel  Mullen,  ;as  chaplain  of 

the  Ninth, 345,  350 

Rizzo,  Chaplain  Leo,  Sketch  of, 

350,  35i 

Robinson,  George,  of  the  Ninth 
walks  two  miles  without  as- 
sistance after  being  shot,  138,  139 
Roosevelt,  President,    .     .     .  363  364 

Roster  of  the  Ninth, 241 

Roster  of  the  six  Irish  companies 
of  Connecticut  as  it  stood  in 

Dec.,  1854, 14,  15 

Routine  on  Ship  Island,       ...     62 
Rowley,    Private    Ralph   O.,    of 

Magee's  cavalry, 122 

Ruckholdt,  Capt.,  of  New  Ha- 
ven,   -  .  16 

Ryan,  Sergt.  Timothy,  Sketch  of, 

35L352 

Sad  fate  of  Capt.  French,  of  the 
Fourteenth  Maine,  as  told  by 
Col.  Cahill,  118 

Salisbury,  N.  C.,  Men  of  the 
Ninth  die  at, 207 


Sand  on  Ship  Island  makes  march- 
ing laborious, 65 

Sappers  and  Miners,  Capt.  Wil- 
liam Wright  commands  a 
company  of, 332 

Sarsfield  Guards,  of  New  Haven,  346 

Savannah,  Ga.,  Military  district 
of, 177 

Scenes  and  Incidents  in  Camp 
Chase,  Lowell,  Mass., 

49,  50,  51,  52,  53 

Scott,  Capt.  Garry  T.,  Sketch 
of,  .  • 352 

Scott,  Capt.  Thomas,  of  Norwich,    29 

Scranton,  Mayor,  of  New  Haven, 
welcomes  home  the  Ninth 
battalion, 204 

Sealed  orders,  Lieut.  Col.  John 
G.  Healy  receives,  ....  202 

Second  Connecticut  Artillery,       .  188 

Second  Connecticut  Infantry, 

343,  353 

Second  Corps,  The, 184 

Second  New  York  Zouaves,     .     .  165 
Second    Vermont    battery,   The, 
embarks    on  the    Matanzas 
with  the  Ninth  Connecticut 

regiment, 89 

Seminole  Indians,  The,  ....  324 
Semmes,  Capt.,  and  the  Sumter,  100 
Sergt.  Philip  Reilly  captures  two 
heavily    laden    wagons    con- 
taining  goods    intended    for 
the  Confederates,      .     .     .     .163 
Seventeenth  U.  S.  Infantry,     .     .  353 
Seventh  Connecticut,  .     .     .     .  34,  37 
Seymour,  Gov.,  of  Connecticut, 

13,  334 

Shamrock,  Connecticut  represent- 
ed by  the  sons  of  the  ever 

green, 4,  125 

Sharp  fire  opened  upon  a  detail 

of  the  Ninth,      ....  138,  139 
Shaw,  Lieut.  John,  Mention  of,  .     352 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


443 


Shenandoah  Valley,  The, 

177, 189,  191, 194,  200,  328,  331,  332 

Sherman,  Brig.  T.  W.,  An  order 
from, 155 

Sheridan,  Capt.  Terence,  Sketch 

of, 352,  353 

Sheridan's  famous  ride  from  Win- 
chester, 197,  198,  199,  200,  201, 

202,  340 

Shiloh,  Veterans  of, 122 

Ship  Island,  Miss. ,  Arrival  of  the 

Ninth  at, 59 

Signers  of  a  petition  (in  1850)  that 
was  intended  to  be  presented 
to  Gov.  Trumbull  of  Connec- 
ticut,   12,  13 

"Six  large  regiments  of  Confed- 
erates" reported  secretly  or- 
ganized in   New  Orleans  to 
assist  in  recapturing  the  city,  172 
Sixth  Connecticut,  .     .     .     34,  37,  330 
Sixth  Corps,  The,  .     .     .  188,  189,  198 
Sixty-Ninth  New  York,  .     .     .     23,29 
Skirmish    with  the   enemy  near 

Terrebonne, 132 

Slater,  The  Misses,  of  Waterbury,  28 
Slidell-Mason  affair,  The,  ...  99 
Slocum,  Oration  by  Rev.  William 

J- 384,  385 

Smith,  Rev.  John,  of  New  Haven, 

celebrates     Mass     at    Camp 

Welch, 40 

Snicker's  Gap, 192,  332 

Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  .  .  .334 
Some  regimental  orders  to  the 

Ninth,     36,   53,  62,    143,    144, 

145,153,154,155,  156,157,  158, 

159,  167,  168,  169,  170,  171 
Sons    of    America,    Patriotic 

Order, 391 

"  Sons  of  Connecticut  and  sons  of 

Mississippi," 227 

Sons  of  Veterans, 

372,  373.  376,  377,  382 


Southwest  Pass,  La.,  Arrival  of 
the  Ninth  at, 91 

Spain,  War  with, 414 

Special  Orders,  department  of  the 
Gulf,  ....  142,  143,  154,  155 

Sperry,  Address  by  Congress- 
man  398 

Sperry,  Col.  L.  W.,    .     .     .     .     44,  45 

Stamford  Guards,  The 21 

State  flag  of  the  Ninth  specially 
designed, 45 

Steamer  Henry  Lewis  conveys 
the  Ninth  from  the  Constitu- 
tion to  Ship  Island,  Miss.,  .  59 

Stood  out  to  sea,  The  transport 
fleet  left  Ship  Island  and,  .  90 

Strasburg,  Va.,  Men  of  the  Ninth 
wounded  at, 206 

Streit,    Lieut.   Christian,   Sketch 

of, 353 

Streit,  Simon,  Sketch  of,      .     .     .353 

Strong  scouting  parties  kept  out 
on  all  roads, 114 

Studley,  Mayor,  of  New  Haven, 

385,  386,  397,  398,  404 

St.  Charles  hotel,  New  Orleans, 
Gen.  Butler  establishes  his 
headquarters  at  the,  .  .  96,  97 

St.  James  hospital,  New  Orleans, 

144,  156,  331 

St.  John's  church,  New  Haven,  40,  66 

St.  John's  church,  New  Haven, 
The  Ninth  attends  Mass  at,  .  40 

St.  Joseph's  church,  Winsted,     .  350 

St.  Patrick's  church,  New  Haven, 
Flag  hoisted  on  the  spire 
of, 27 

St.  Patrick's  church,  New  Haven, 
Rev.  Father  Hart  of,  .  181,  182 

St.  Patrick's  Day  celebration  by 
the  Ninth  in  1862,  ....  72 

St.  Patrick's  Day  celebration,  in 
1865,  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  by 
the  Ninth, 203 


444 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


Sullivan,  Gen.  John,  (of  the  Rev- 
olution)  364 

Sumter,  Fort, 413 

Sumter>  The,  and  Capt.  Semmes,  100 

Surrender  of  Forts  Jackson  and 

St.  Philip 94 

Survivors  of  the  Ninth,  Present, 

418,  419,  420 

Survivors  of  the  Washington- 
Erina  Guards 13,  14 

Sweeney,  Gen., 325 

Swords  and  pistols  presented 
Capt.  Michael  McCarten, 
Lieut.  John  G.  Healy  and 
Lieut.  John  Shaw,  .  .  .  .  38 

Sword,  sash  and  belt  presented 

Capt.  Duffy, 38 

Sword,  sash  and  belt  presented 
Capt.  James  P.  Hennessey,  .  44 

Sword,  sash  and  belt  presented 
Lieut.  Daniel  Carroll,  ...  39 

Sword,  sash  and  belt  presented 

Lieut.  Lawrence  O'Brien,      .     38 

Sword  and  sash  presented  Capt. 

Thomas  C.  Coates 324 

1 '  Taps  "  sounded  at  the  grave  of 

Chaplain  Leo  Rizzo,      .     .     .351 
Target,  Wreck  of  an  English  ship 

used  as  a, 67 

Terrebonne,  La.,  ....  132,  138 
Tennally town  road,  The,  .  .  .185 
Tenth  Connecticut,  .  .  .  327,  336 
Tenth  New  Hampshire,  ...  29 
Tenth  U.  S.  Infantry,  ....  353 
"That  forever  closed-up  chasm,"  228 
' '  The  drummer  boys  of  the  Ninth 

were  a  brave  set,"    ....     69 
"  The  Emmet  Guard  going,"       .     34 
"The  enemy  opened  with  artil- 
lery,"   137 

"  The  harp  and  the  shamrock,"  224 
"The  heroes  of  1812,"  ....  229 
"  The  last  roll-call," 224 


"  The  lights  being  out  at  Tybee,"  203 
"The  Ninth  Connecticut  on  the 

left," 65,  66 

' '  The  Ninth  formed  on  the  prin- 
cipal street  and  awaited  fur- 
ther orders," 81 

The  Ninth  heads  a  review,  ...     87 
"  The  pride  alike  of  every  Amer- 
ican heart," 228 

"  The  real  spirit  of  England  was 

fully  revealed/' 99 

"  The  report  of  heavy  guns,"  .  77 
The  Soldiers'  Monument  (A 

poem), 407 

Third  Connecticut,  .  .  34,  327,  333 
Third  Mississippi,  Return  of  the 

captured  flag  of  the,       .     212-238 
Thirteenth  Connecticut,    103,  173, 189 
"  This  serener  blue  in  our  Amer- 
ican skies," 234 

"  Three  hundred  sick  in  charge 
of  Surgeon  Gallagher  of  the 

Ninth," no 

Tierney,    Rt.    Rev.    Bishop,    of 

Hartford, 350 

Tilson,  Major  John  Q.,  of  New 
Haven,  358,359,366,367,369,395 

Tipperary,  Ireland, 346 

Tracy,  Capt.  Daniel,  (1759),  •  •  " 
Tracy,  Lieut.  James,  (1756),  .  .  n 
Tracy,  Lieut.  Joseph,  (1759),  .  .  n 
"  Tranquil  hands  of  the  dead,"  .  234 

Trent  case,  The, 99 

Tribune,  New  York  correspond- 
ent of  the,  praises  the  Ninth, 

128,  129 

Trinity  College,  Dublin,  .  .  39,  332 
Troops,  on  Ship  Island  aroused  by 

heavy  firing, 77 

Trumbull,  Gov.,  of  Connecticut,  12, 13 
Twelfth    Connecticut     with    the 
Ninth  at  Ship  Island  and  else- 
where,        71,  87,  103 

Twentieth  Connecticut,  ....  325 


A    GENERAL  INDEX. 


445 


Twenty-fifth  Connecticut,   Major 

Thomas  McManus  of  the,      .      8 
Twenty-fourth  Connecticut,  Ma- 
jor Patrick  Maher  of  the,      .      8 
Twenty-eighth  Massachusetts,  29,  396 

Twenty-second  Corps 184 

Twenty-sixth    Massachusetts  es- 
corts the  Ninth  Connecticut 
into  Camp  Chase,     ....    49 
Twenty-sixth  U.  S.  Infantry,  .     .  353 
Twiggs,  Gen.  David  E.,  Treach- 
ery of, 160 

Two  orders  to  Capt.   Lawrence 

O'Brien, 155 

Two  rifled  guns  placed  in  posi- 
tion, manned  by  men  of  the 

Ninth, 131 

Tybee  Island  light, 202 

Tyler,  Mayor,  of  New  Haven, 
greets  the  re-enlisted  veterans 
of  the  Ninth, 181 

Under  the  guns  of  Vicksburg,      .  no 
Union  Army,   Many  Irish    regi- 
ments in  the,        29 

Union  blockading  fleet,      .     .     59,  61 
Union  pickets  being  driven  in  by 
the  Ninth  Louisiana  Partisan 

Rangers, 127 

U.  S.  Signal  Corps 163,  325 

U.  S.  Veteran  Volunteers,  Fourth, 

327,  328 

Vicksburg,  Heavy  losses  of  the 
Ninth  near,  108,  109,  no,  in, 
112,  146 

Walsh,  Lieut.  Patrick,  (1759),  •     •     n 

Walsh,  Private  Robert,  of  Co.  E, 
accidentally  killed  at  Ship 
Island, 90 

War  Meetings,  Prominent  men  of 
Irish  extraction  participate  in 
great, 26 

Warner,  Capt.  David  C. ,  Mention 

°t> 353 


War  of  1812,  Ship  Island  used  as 
a  rendezvous  by  the  British 
in  the, 59 

War  with  Spain, 411 

Washington,  D.  C.,  The  Ninth  in, 

184,  185 

Washington-Erina  Guards  of  New 
Haven, 
8,  12,  13, 14, 16,  19,  22,  322,  328,  329 

Washington,  George, 226 

Washington  Light  Guard  of 
Bridgeport,  Conn.,  ....  330 

Water  bury,  Patriotic  exercises  in,     28 

Waterbury,  Ct. ,  prominent  in  the 
Fenian  movement,  ....  325 

Waterford,  Ireland, 353 

"We  all  face  the  same  way  ! "    .236 

"We  awoke  Capt.  Sheridan,  and 
turned  over  to  him  our  pris- 
oners."   163 

' '  We  could  not  give  a  funeral 
escort  to  the  dead,"  .  .  .  .  in 

"We  had  to  wade  two  large 
streams," 187 

' '  Went  from  Ireland  to  the  Low 
Countries," 10 

"We  saw  a  succession  of  bright 
flashes," 77 

"  We  will  have  joined  the  army 
above," 224 

Wexford,  Ireland, 326 

Whitney,  Hon.  Eli,     .     .     .     393,  395 

Williams,     Capt.     Michael     A., 

Sketch  of, 353,  354 

Williams,  Gen.,  Death  of, 

115,  117,  120,  121 
sketch  of, 173,  174 

Williams,  J.  D.,  succeeds  Justin 
Hodge  as  Adjutant-General 
of  Connecticut, 18 

Wilson,  Lieut.  Thomas  L.,  Men- 
tion of, 354 

Winchester,  Va. ,  Sheridan's  fa- 
mous ride  from, 

197,  198,  199,  201,  202 


A   GENERAL}  INDEX. 


Winchester,  Va., 

6,  188,  189,  190,  193,  194,  197, 
206 
Winslow,   Capt.,  and  the  Kear- 

sarge, 101 

Winsor,  Ass't  Surg.  Ira  C. ,  Men- 
tion of ,     158,354 

Woodhouse,  Levi,  Quartermaster 

General  of  Connecticut,     .     .     19 
Wounded  of  the  Ninth,  A  list  of, 

205,  206 


Wreck  of  an  English  ship  used  as 
a  target, 67 

Wright,  Capt.  William,  Sketch 
of, 332,  333 

"  Yankee  exterminator  "  captured 

at  Pass  Christian,    .     .     .     80,  8 1 
Yale,      .     .     .     321,  344,  347,  393,  411 

Youghal,  Ireland, 329 

"  You  were  the  boys  in  gray,  and 
we  were  the  boys  in  blue,"  .  223 


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